| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: able to see with what ease the religious instincts of crowds are
ready to revive. There was not a country inn that did not
possess the hero's portrait. He was credited with the power of
remedying all injustices and all evils, and thousands of men
would have given their lives for him. Great might have been his
place in history had his character been at all on a level with
his legendary reputation.
It is thus a very useless commonplace to assert that a religion
is necessary for the masses, because all political, divine, and
social creeds only take root among them on the condition of
always assuming the religious shape--a shape which obviates the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Night always found him at home, warm, well fed,
content, and at peace. Sometimes the old farmer
on whose land he lived dropped in of an evening
and they had a game of checkers. The old man was
a checker expert. He played with unusual skill,
but David made for himself a little code of honor.
He would never beat the old man, even if he were
able, oftener than once out of three evenings. He
made coffee on these convivial occasions. He made
very good coffee, and they sipped as they moved
the men and kings, and the old man chuckled, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
LVIII
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