| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: whom no one had admitted; and after prayers there came that
moment on the clock which was the signal for Mr. Nicholson's
departure.
'John,' said he, 'of course you will stay here. Be very
careful not to excite Maria, if Miss Mackenzie thinks it
desirable that you should see her. Alexander, I wish to
speak with you alone.' And then, when they were both in the
back room: 'You need not come to the office to-day,' said he;
'you can stay and amuse your brother, and I think it would be
respectful to call on Uncle Greig. And by the bye' (this
spoken with a certain- dare we say? - bashfulness), 'I agree
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: rois.
SALOME. De qui parle-t-il?
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. On ne sait jamais, princesse.
IOKANAAN. Ou est celle qui ayant vu des hommes peints sur la
muraille, des images de Chaldeens tracees avec des couleurs, s'est
laissee emporter e la concupiscence de ses yeux, et a envoye des
ambassadeurs en Chaldee?
SALOME. C'est de ma mere qu'il parle.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Mais non, princesse.
SALOME. Si, c'est de ma mere.
IOKANAAN. Ou est celle qui s'est abandonnee aux capitaines des
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: respective theories.
The older historians of the Revolution--Thiers, Quinet, and,
despite his talent, Michelet himself, are somewhat eclipsed to-
day. Their doctrines were by no means complicated; a historic
fatalism prevails generally in their work. Thiers regarded the
Revolution as the result of several centuries of absolute
monarchy, and the Terror as the necessary consequence of foreign
invasion. Quinet described the excesses of 1793 as the result of
a long-continued despotism, but declared that the tyranny of the
Convention was unnecessary, and hampered the work of the
Revolution. Michelet saw in this last merely the work of the
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