| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: is but one way, apparently, as you have ere this doubtless discovered. But we
wish to inform you that even this one way is barred. You may die, but you die
failing and acknowledging your failure. Note this: WE ARE PART AND PARCEL OF
YOUR POSSESSIONS. WITH YOUR MILLIONS WE PASS DOWN TO YOUR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS
FOREVER.
We are the inevitable. We are the culmination of industrial and social wrong;.
We turn upon the society that has created us. We are the successful failures
of the age, the scourges of a degraded civilization.
We are the creatures of a perverse social selection. We meet force with force.
Only the strong shall endure. We believe in the survival of the fittest. You
have crushed your wage slaves into the dirt and you have survived. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: the Father and the Holy Ghost is glorified. I am not one of
those who proclaim from the house-top their wild rout of gods,
and worship lifeless and dumb idols, but one God do I acknowledge
and confess, in three persons glorified, the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost, but in one nature and substance, in one glory and
kingdom undivided. He then is in three persons one God, without
beginning, and without end, eternal and everlasting, increate,
immutable and incorporeal, invisible, infinite, incomprehensible,
alone good and righteous, who created all things out of nothing,
whether visible or invisible. First, he made the heavenly and
invisible powers, countless multitudes, immaterial and bodiless,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: in whatever direction they would, they found that the country retained
everywhere its desert character, rocky, barren, and without a trace
of vegetation. Here and there a slight layer of snow, or a thin coating
of ice arising from atmospheric condensation indicated the existence
of superficial moisture, but it would require a period indefinitely long,
exceeding human reckoning, before that moisture could collect
into a stream and roll downwards over the stony strata to the sea.
It seemed at present out of their power to determine whether the land
upon which they were so happily settled was an island or a continent,
and till the cold was abated they feared to undertake any lengthened
expedition to ascertain the actual extent of the strange concrete
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