| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: Again Mannaeus left the hall, covering his face with his hands.
The guests found the second delay longer than the first. It seemed
tedious to every one.
Presently a sound of footsteps was heard in the corridor without; then
silence fell again. The suspense was becoming intolerable.
Suddenly the door was flung open and Mannaeus entered, holding at
arm's length, grasping it by the hair, the head of Iaokanann. His
appearance was greeted with a burst of applause, which filled him with
pride and revived his courage.
He placed the head upon a charger and offered it to Salome, who had
descended the steps to receive it. She remounted to the balcony, with
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence
of the labourer.
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present;
in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In
bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality,
while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
And the abolition of this state of things is called by the
bourgeois,
abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The
abolition
of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: authority among your follow-men--the noble and most Christian moral
of that heathen book is this: that the path to solid and
beneficent influence over our fellow-men lies, not through brute
force, not through cupidity, but through the highest morality;
through justice, truthfulness, humanity, self-denial, modesty,
courtesy, and all which makes man or woman lovely in the eyes of
mortals or of God.
Yes, the "Cyropaedia" is a noble book, about a noble personage. But
I cannot forget that there are nobler words by far concerning that
same noble personage, in the magnificent series of Hebrew Lyrics,
which begins "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith the Lord"--in
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