| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: arrest? Like as stubble shall be burnt by live coal of fire, and
consumed by kindled flame, so their root shall be as foam, and
their blossom shall go up as dust, for they would not the law of
the Lord of hosts, and provoked the oracle of the Holy One of
Israel."
"In tune therewith saith also another prophet, `The great day of
the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. The bitter and austere
voice of the day of the Lord hath been appointed. A mighty day
of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness and desolation, a day of blackness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: of the old palaces of Little Britain. They seem to me to keep
together, and to look down with sovereign contempt upon
their leathern-bottomed neighbors: as I have seen decayed
gentry carry a high head among the plebeian society with which
they were reduced to associate. The whole front of my sitting-
room is taken up with a bow-window, on the panes of which
are recorded the names of previous occupants for many
generations, mingled with scraps of very indifferent
gentlemanlike poetry, written in characters which I can scarcely
decipher, and which extol the charms of many a beauty of
Little Britain who has long, long since bloomed, faded, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: the kneading trough; another with the service of the table. All these
we assigned to separate places, distinguishing one portion for daily
and recurrent use and the rest for high days and holidays. Next we
selected and set aside the supplies required for the month's
expenditure; and, under a separate head,[11] we stored away what we
computed would be needed for the year.[12] For in this way there is
less chance of failing to note how the supplies are likely to last to
the end.
[8] "Movable property," "meubles."
[9] Holden cf. Plut. "De Curios." 515 E, {os gar Xenophon legei toi
Oikonomikois, k.t.l.}
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