| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: (1) Gaberel's EGLIST DE GENEVE, i. 88.
(2) LA DEMOCRATIE CHEZ LES PREDICATEURS DE LA LIGUE.
(3) HISTORIA AFFECTUUM SE IMMISCENTIUM CONTROVERSIAE DE
GYNAECOCRATIA. It is in his collected prefaces, Leipsic,
1683.
Now Knox has been from the first a man well hated; and it is
somewhat characteristic of his luck that he figures here in
the very forefront of the list of partial scribes who trimmed
their doctrine with the wind in all good conscience, and were
political weathercocks out of conviction. Not only has
Thomasius mentioned him, but Bayle has taken the hint from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Snow fell, and the waters were hardened, but I rested not. A few
incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country;
but I often wandered wide from my path. The agony of my feelings
allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage
and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that
happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun
had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green,
confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
"I generally rested during the day and travelled only when I was
secured by night from the view of man. One morning, however,
finding that my path lay through a deep wood, I ventured to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: be accepted from any one of them the earth-full of gold, though he
should give it as a ransom. For them is grievous woe, and helpers have
they none.
Ye cannot attain to righteousness until ye expend in alms of what ye
love. But what ye expend in alms, that God knows.
All food was lawful to the children of Israel save what Israel
made unlawful to himself before that the law was revealed. Say, 'Bring
the law and recite it, if ye speak the truth.' But whoso forges
against God a lie, after that, they are the unjust. Say, 'God speaks
the truth, then follow the faith of Abraham, a 'hanif, who was not
of the idolaters.'
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