| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: stranger would be slain. And I shall have to tell in another place
an instance of the opposite: how a child in Manihiki having taken
a fancy to myself, her adoptive parents at once accepted the
situation and loaded me with gifts.
With such sentiments the necessity for child-destruction would not
fail to clash, and I believe we find the trace of divided feeling
in the Tahitian brotherhood of Oro. At a certain date a new god
was added to the Society-Island Olympus, or an old one refurbished
and made popular. Oro was his name, and he may be compared with
the Bacchus of the ancients. His zealots sailed from bay to bay,
and from island to island; they were everywhere received with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: the killing of the Princesse de Lamballe were merely typical.
They terrorised all the great Assemblies, from the Constituent
Assembly to the Convention, and for ten years they helped to
ravage France. If by some miracle this army of criminals could
have been eliminated, the progress of the Revolution would have
been very different. They stained it with blood from its dawn to
its decline. Reason could do nothing with them but they could do
much against reason.
CHAPTER IV
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONARY CROWDS
1. General Characteristics of the Crowd.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
MAT 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be
it unto you.
MAT 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them,
saying, See that no man know it.
MAT 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in
all that country.
MAT 9:32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man
possessed with a devil.
MAT 9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the
multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
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