| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: gives the whole thing away. We say, No! It's our sort and not
your sort. We'll do without you. We'll get a little more
education and then we'll do without you. We're pressing for all
we can get, and when we've got that we'll take breath and press
for more. We're the Morlocks. Coming up. It isn't our fault that
we've differentiated."
"But you haven't understood the drift of Christianity," said
the bishop. "It's just to assert that men are One community and
not two."
"There's not much of that in the Creeds," said a second labour
leader who was a rationalist. "There's not much of that in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature
immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for
the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of
the king's disease.
LAFEU.
How called you the man you speak of, madam?
COUNTESS.
He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right
to be so--Gerard de Narbon.
LAFEU.
He was excellent indeed, madam; the king very lately spoke
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: And going right through it in the dark. We are in the Box Tunnel.
* * *
There is the light again: and now I suppose you will find your
tongue.
How long it seemed before we came out!
Yes, because you were waiting and watching, with nothing to look
at: but the tunnel is only a mile and a quarter long after all, I
believe. If you had been looking at fields and hedgerows all the
while, you would have thought no time at all had passed.
What curious sandy rocks on each side of the cutting, in lines and
layers.
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