| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: comfortably to bed.
IV. NEW ARMS FOR OLD ONES
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Such are the landscapes and method of modern war. It is more
difficult in its nature from war as it was waged in the
nineteenth century than that was from the nature of the phalanx
or the legion. The nucleus fact--when I talked to General Joffre
he was very insistent upon this point--is still as ever the
ordinary fighting man, but all the accessories and conditions of
his personal encounter with the fighting man of the other side
have been revolutionised in a quarter of a century. The fighting
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: the other side of the room, and it was facing the
front window, which was a bow window. And
that there chair begins to turn, slow and easy.
First I thought she wasn't turning. Then I seen
she was. But Jane and Henry didn't. They was
all took up with each other in the middle of the
room, with their backs to it.
Henry is a-begging of Jane, and she turns a little
more, that chair does. Will she squeak, I
wonders?
"Don't you be a fool, Jane," says the Henry
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: am sure I am one of Christ's true saints. I am baptized. I believe that
Christ my Lord has redeemed me from all my sins, and invested me with His own
eternal righteousness and holiness. To hide in caves and dens, to have a bony
body, to wear the hair long in the mistaken idea that such departures from
normalcy will obtain some special regard in heaven is not the holy life. A
holy life is to be baptized and to believe in Christ, and to subdue the flesh
with the Spirit.
To feel the lusts of the flesh is not without profit to us. It prevents us
from being vain and from being puffed up with the wicked opinion of our own
work-righteousness. The monks were so inflated with the opinion of their own
righteousness, they thought they had so much holiness that they could afford
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