| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: religion but denied the bones that held it together--as they might
deny the bones of a friend. It is true, they would admit, the body
moves in a way that implies bones in its every movement, but --WE
HAVE NEVER SEEN THOSE BONES.
The disputes in theory--I do not say the difference in reality--
between the modern believer and the atheist or agnostic--becomes at
times almost as impalpable as that subtle discussion dear to
students of physics, whether the scientific "ether" is real or a
formula. Every material phenomenon is consonant with and helps to
define this ether, which permeates and sustains and is all things,
which nevertheless is perceptible to no sense, which is reached only
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: They fight.
Edg. Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come! No matter vor your
foins.
[Oswald falls.]
Osw. Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
And give the letters which thou find'st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
Upon the British party. O, untimely death! Death!
He dies.
Edg. I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: HODGE.
He skill of the stars! there's good-man Car of Fulhum,
he that carried us to the strong Ale, where goody
Trundell had her maid got with child: O he knows the
stars. He'll tickle you Charles Waine in nine degrees.
That same man will tell you goody Trundell when her
Ale shall miscarry, only by the stars.
SECOND SMITH.
Aye, that's a great virtue; indeed I think Thomas be no
body in comparison to him.
FIRST SMITH.
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