| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: Chapter 4: "If Abraham is justified by works, he may boast, but
not before God." However, when all works are so completely
rejected - which must mean faith alone justifies - whoever would
speak plainly and clearly about this rejection of works would have
to say "Faith alone justifies and not works." The matter itself
and the nature of language necessitates it.
"Yet", they say, "it has such an offensive tone that people infer
from it that need not do any good works." Dear, what are we to
say? IS it not more offensive for St. Paul himself to not use the
term "faith alone" but but spell it even more clearly, putting the
finishing touches on it by saying "Without the works of the Law?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: loses sight of the comical niaiserie allemande involved in such
an answer. People were beside themselves with delight over this
new faculty, and the jubilation reached its climax when Kant
further discovered a moral faculty in man--for at that time
Germans were still moral, not yet dabbling in the "Politics of
hard fact." Then came the honeymoon of German philosophy. All the
young theologians of the Tubingen institution went immediately
into the groves--all seeking for "faculties." And what did they
not find--in that innocent, rich, and still youthful period of
the German spirit, to which Romanticism, the malicious fairy,
piped and sang, when one could not yet distinguish between
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: instance, would find the best-fitted ground more perfectly occupied by
distinct plants in one island than in another, and it would be exposed to
the attacks of somewhat different enemies. If then it varied, natural
selection would probably favour different varieties in the different
islands. Some species, however, might spread and yet retain the same
character throughout the group, just as we see on continents some species
spreading widely and remaining the same.
The really surprising fact in this case of the Galapagos Archipelago, and
in a lesser degree in some analogous instances, is that the new species
formed in the separate islands have not quickly spread to the other
islands. But the islands, though in sight of each other, are separated by
On the Origin of Species |
