| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas
to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: Mahometan, whose insolence increased every day with his power; and
nothing after the defeat of the Portuguese was supposed able to put
a stop to the progress of his arms.
The soldiers of Portugal, having lost their chief, resorted to the
Emperor, who, though young, promised great things, and told them
that since their own general was dead, they would accept of none but
himself. He received them with great kindness, and hearing of Don
Christopher de Gama's misfortune, could not forbear honouring with
some tears the memory of a man who had come so far to his succour,
and lost his life in his cause.
The Portuguese, resolved at any rate to revenge the fate of their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Whoso does right it is for his soul, and whoso does evil it is
against it, for thy Lord is not unjust towards His servants.
To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour: and no fruits come
forth from their husks, and no female conceives, or is delivered, save
with His knowledge.
And the day when He shall call to them, 'Where are the partners ye
did join with me?' they shall say, 'We do own to thee there is no
witness amongst us!' and that on which they used to call before
shall stray away from them, and they shall think there is no escape
for them. Man is never tired of praying for good, but if evil touch
him, then he is despairing and hopeless.
The Koran |
