| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: Fourier used to say that we ought to do the same by chimney-sweeps
and dustmen, and honour them instead of despising them; and he was
a very clever old gentleman: but, unfortunately for him and the
world, as mad as a March hare.
And, instead of watchmen and policemen to keep out nasty things at
night, there were thousands and thousands of water-snakes, and most
wonderful creatures they were. They were all named after the
Nereids, the sea-fairies who took care of them, Eunice and Polynoe,
Phyllodoce and Psamathe, and all the rest of the pretty darlings
who swim round their Queen Amphitrite, and her car of cameo shell.
They were dressed in green velvet, and black velvet, and purple
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: sketch the rise and progress of Christologic doctrine, in its
most striking features, during the first three centuries.
Beginning with the apostolic view of the human Messiah sent to
deliver Judaism from its spiritual torpor, and prepare it for the
millennial kingdom, we shall briefly trace the progressive
metamorphosis of this conception until it completely loses its
identity in the Athanasian theory, according to which Jesus was
God himself, the Creator of the universe, incarnate in human
flesh.
The earliest dogma held by the apostles concerning Jesus was that
of his resurrection from the grave after death. It was not only
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: interested in Herr Pooterage because of his romantic seit. Herr
Pooterage was so much more--ah!--in the picture. I am afraid you
are not equal to controlling the flying machine department of our
aerial park as he wished you to do. He hadt promised himself
that....
"And der was also the prestige--the worldt prestige of Pooterage
with us.... Well, we must see what we can do." He held out his
hand. "Gif me the plans."
A terrible chill ran through the being of Mr. Smallways. To this
day he is not clear in his mind whether he wept or no, but
certainly there was weeping in his voice. "'Ere, I say!" he
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