| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the
exact temper of doing this.
Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States
to compose a new Union, as to produce harmony only,
and prevent renewed secession?
Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations,
and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular
opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: found a flashlight. She meant to hurry now. She did not mean to
let that nervous dread, that fear, that was quickening her pulse
now, have time to get the better of her. She located the door that
led to the house, and in another moment, the short passage behind
her, she was in the kitchen, the flashlight winking cautiously
around her. She paused to listen here. There was not a sound.
She went on again - through a swinging pantry door with extreme
care, and into a small hall. "On the right," the Sparrow had said.
Yes, here it was; a door that opened on the rear of the library,
evidently. She listened again. There was no sound - save the
silence, that seemed to grow loud now, and palpitate, and make great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: That takes ye here, and how the toils are loos'd,
Why rocks the mountain and why ye rejoice.
Vouchsafe, that from thy lips I next may learn,
Who on the earth thou wast, and wherefore here
So many an age wert prostrate." --"In that time,
When the good Titus, with Heav'n's King to help,
Aveng'd those piteous gashes, whence the blood
By Judas sold did issue, with the name
Most lasting and most honour'd there was I
Abundantly renown'd," the shade reply'd,
"Not yet with faith endued. So passing sweet
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
