| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: neighbor. How, in short, he acts toward himself as much as possible
as if he were another, and to that other as if he were himself.
Then, not content with standing stranger like upon the threshold,
we have sought to see the soul of their civilization in its intrinsic
manifestations. We have pushed our inquiry, as it were, one step
nearer its home. And the same trait that was apparent
sociologically has been exposed in this our antipodal phase of
psychical research. We have seen how impersonal is his language, the
principal medium of communication between one soul and another; how
impersonal are the communings of his soul with itself. How the man
turns to nature instead of to his fellowman in silent sympathy.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: Pontiff's consent for convening, together with your Imperial
Majesty such General Council, to be published as soon as possible
by letters that were to be sent out.
If the outcome, therefore, should be such that the differences
between us and the other parties in the matter of religion should
not be amicably and in charity settled, then here, before Your
Imperial Majesty we make the offer in all obedience, in addition
to what we have already done, that we will all appear and defend
our cause in such a general, free Christian Council, for the
convening of which there has always been accordant action and
agreement of votes in all the Imperial Diets held during Your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: times as thoughtful of speech as he was wanton of action; but only
at times.
"But I know your breed," responded the other. "Your brothers are
many, and it is you and yours who break the trail for them to
follow. In time they shall come to possess the land, but not in
my time. Already, have I heard, are they on the head-reaches of
the Great River, and far away below are the Russians."
Hay Stockard lifted his head with a quick start. This was
startling geographical information. The Hudson Bay post at Fort
Yukon had other notions concerning the course of the river,
believing it to flow into the Arctic.
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