| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: give a kind of a groan, and says--
' "I've seed a raft act so before, along here," he says, " 'pears
to me the current has most quit above the head of this bend durin'
the last two years," he says.
'Well, he raised up two or three times, and looked away off
and around on the water. That started me at it, too. A body is
always doing what he sees somebody else doing, though there mayn't
be no sense in it. Pretty soon I see a black something floating
on the water away off to stabboard and quartering behind us.
I see he was looking at it, too. I says--
' "What's that?' He says, sort of pettish,--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: gospel; and we placed in the hearts of those who followed him kindness
and compassion.- But monkery, they invented it; we only prescribed
to them the craving after the goodwill of God, and they observed it
not with due observance. But we gave to those who believe amongst them
their hire; though many amongst them were workers of abomination!
O ye who believe! fear God, and believe in His Apostle: He will give
you two portions of His mercy, and will make for you a light for you
to walk in, and will forgive you; for God is forgiving, compassionate.
That the people of the Book may know that they cannot control
aught of God's grace; and that grace is in God's hands, He gives it to
whom He will; for God is Lord of mighty grace!
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: State has subjects and rulers, who in a democracy are called rulers, and in
other States masters: but in our State they are called saviours and
allies; and the subjects who in other States are termed slaves, are by us
termed nurturers and paymasters, and those who are termed comrades and
colleagues in other places, are by us called fathers and brothers. And
whereas in other States members of the same government regard one of their
colleagues as a friend and another as an enemy, in our State no man is a
stranger to another; for every citizen is connected with every other by
ties of blood, and these names and this way of speaking will have a
corresponding reality--brother, father, sister, mother, repeated from
infancy in the ears of children, will not be mere words. Then again the
The Republic |
