| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: It is the way that change has always travelled.
Aristocracy, the prevalence of the best--the suffering and
extinction of the unfit, and so to better things."
"But aristocracy! those people I met--"
"Oh! not those!" said Ostrog. "But for the most
part they go to their death. Vice and pleasure! They
have no children. That sort of stuff will die out. If
the world keeps to one road, that is, if there is no
turning back. An easy road to excess, convenient
Euthanasia for the pleasure seekers singed in the
flame, that is the way to improve the race!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: marriages forbidden for the future, but also existing
marriages were torn asunder, contrary to all laws, divine and
human, contrary even to the Canons themselves, made not only
by the Popes, but by most celebrated Synods. [Moreover, many
God-fearing and intelligent people in high station are known
frequently to have expressed misgivings that such enforced
celibacy and depriving men of marriage (which God Himself has
instituted and left free to men) has never produced any good
results, but has brought on many great and evil vices and much
iniquity.]
Seeing also that, as the world is aging, man's nature is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: very attentive to what he says; and I ask questions of him, in order that I
may learn, and be improved by him. And I could not help remarking while
you were speaking, that when you recited the verses in which Achilles, as
you argued, attacks Odysseus as a deceiver, that you must be strangely
mistaken, because Odysseus, the man of wiles, is never found to tell a lie;
but Achilles is found to be wily on your own showing. At any rate he
speaks falsely; for first he utters these words, which you just now
repeated,--
'He is hateful to me even as the gates of death who thinks one thing and
says another:'--
And then he says, a little while afterwards, he will not be persuaded by
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