| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: other women; not his mistress and his betrayer. Keep his memory in
your heart; do not make it an anguish to you. If there were no joys in
hopeless love, what would become of us, poor women that we are? God,
of whom you never think, Marie, will reward us for obeying our
vocation on this earth,--to love, and suffer."
"Dear," replied Mademoiselle de Verneuil, taking Francine's hand and
patting it, "your voice is very sweet and persuasive. Reason is
attractive from your lips. I should like to obey you, but--"
"You will forgive him, you will not betray him?"
"Hush! never speak of that man again. Compared with him Corentin is a
noble being. Do you hear me?"
The Chouans |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: there until it pleased them to depart."
This is surprising enough; but more remains behind. Dining
shortly afterwards with M. des Armoises, member of one of the
oldest families in Lorraine, Father Vignier was invited to look
over the family archives, that he might satisfy his curiosity
regarding certain ancestors of his host. And on looking over the
family register, what was his astonishment at finding a contract
of marriage between Robert des Armoises, Knight, and Jeanne
d'Arcy, the so-called Maid of Orleans!
In 1740, some time after these occurrences, there was found, in
the town hall of Orleans, a bill of one Jacques l'Argentier, of
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: tyrannies, which are very strong and difficult to destroy. To a
people avid of equality and habituated to hold its Governments
responsible for every event individual tyranny seemed
insupportable, while a collective tyranny is readily endured,
although generally much more severe.
The extension of the tyranny of the State has therefore been the
final result of all our revolutions, and the common
characteristic of all systems of government which we have known
in France. This form of tyranny may be regarded as a racial
ideal, since successive upheavals of France have only fortified
it. Statism is the real political system of the Latin peoples,
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