| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: sword rang loudly on the stones. Two or three voices demanded who
went there - some in French, some in English; but Denis made no
reply, and ran the faster down the lane. Once upon the terrace, he
paused to look back. They still kept calling after him, and just
then began to double the pace in pursuit, with a considerable clank
of armour, and great tossing of the torchlight to and fro in the
narrow jaws of the passage.
Denis cast a look around and darted into the porch. There he might
escape observation, or - if that were too much to expect - was in a
capital posture whether for parley or defence. So thinking, he
drew his sword and tried to set his back against the door. To his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while
existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in
nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with
the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have
no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge
that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had
never recanted them. And, more than this, they placed in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: they will surely say, 'The mighty, the knowing One created them,
'who made for you the earth a couch and placed for you therein
roads, haply ye may be guided: and who sent down from the heaven water
in due measure; and we raised up thereby a dead country; thus shall ye
too be brought forth; and who has created all species; and has made
for you the ships and the cattle whereon to ride that ye may settle
yourselves on their backs; then remember the favour of your Lord
when ye settled thereon, and say, 'Celebrated be the praises of Him
who hath subjected this to us! We could not have got this ourselves;
and, verily, unto our Lord shall we return!'
Yet they make for Him of His servants offspring; verily, man is
The Koran |
