| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: and when we got to the roofed big passageway betwixt
the double log house and the kitchen part, there was
everything hanging on the wall just as it used to was,
even to Uncle Silas's old faded green baize working-gown
with the hood to it, and raggedy white patch between the
shoulders that always looked like somebody had hit him with
a snowball; and then we lifted the latch and walked in.
Aunt Sally she was just a-ripping and a-tearing around,
and the children was huddled in one corner, and the old
man he was huddled in the other and praying for help
in time of need. She jumped for us with joy and tears
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: her hand being so eagerly sought after that her indefinite
engagement with _him_ was in continual perspective.
She was happy even when they did take place; but not from
any flow of spirits on his side, or any such expressions
of tender gallantry as had blessed the morning.
His mind was fagged, and her happiness sprung from
being the friend with whom it could find repose.
"I am worn out with civility," said he. "I have been
talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say.
But with _you_, Fanny, there may be peace. You will not
want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: and devour its limbs."
[1] See Charles F. Dupuis, "Traite des Mysteres," ch. i.
[2] Pausan, Corinth, ch. 37.
[3] Clem, Prot. Eur. Bacch.
[4] See Porphyry, De Abstinentia, lii, Section 56.
That Eucharistic rites were very very ancient is plain
from the Totem-sacraments of savages; and to this subject
we shall now turn.
IV. TOTEM-SACRAMENTS AND EUCHARISTS
Much has been written on the origin of the Totem-system
--the system, that is, of naming a tribe or a portion of a
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
