| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: see; who will say: "If religion be the pillar of political and
social order, there is an order which is best supported by a
religion which is adverse to free thought, free speech, free
conscience, free communion between man and God. The more enervating
the superstition, the more exacting and tyrannous its priesthood,
the more it will do our work, if we help it to do its own. If it
permit us to enslave the body, we will permit it to enslave the
soul."
And so may be inaugurated a period of that organised anarchy of
which the poet says:
It is not life, but death, when nothing stirs.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: else I want to pray."
"When is Michaelmas Day?" said Ann Veronica, a little abruptly.
"Heaven knows!" said Mr. Manning; and added, "the twenty-ninth."
"I thought it was earlier," said Ann Veronica. "Wasn't
Parliament to reassemble?"
He put out his hand and leaned against a tree and crossed his
legs. "You're not interested in politics?" he asked, almost with
a note of protest.
"Well, rather," said Ann Veronica. "It seems-- It's
interesting."
"Do you think so? I find my interest in that sort of thing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: fail you," all reply; and each one adds: "So help me God, who
fails you now is no friend of yours." Then they fasten on their
swords, tighten their saddles and girths, and mount their steeds
with shields in hand. When they had hung the shields about their
necks, and taken their lances with the gaily coloured ensigns,
they all proceed to the ford at once. Those on the farther side
lower their lances, and quickly ride to strike at them. But they
(on the hither bank) knew how to pay them back, not sparing nor
avoiding them, nor yielding to them a foot of ground. Rather,
each man struck his opponent so fiercely that there is no knight
so brave but is compelled to leave the saddle. They did not
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