| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: unlooked-for demonstration on his sister's part.
He got off the stool and walked about in the little
cleared space round the desk. When he spoke, it was
to utter something which he could trace to no mental
process of which he had been conscious.
"How do you know that that isn't what I've felt too--from
the beginning?" he demanded of her, almost with truculence.
"You say I sit on my money-bags and smile--you abuse
me with doing no good with my money--how do you know
I haven't been studying the subject all this while,
and making my plans, and getting ready to act? You never
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: third order; not, thank heaven! an eternity of the meddling and
muddling self-conscious Intellect!
Every careful reader has noticed the confusedness of
Paul's mind and arguments. Even taking only those
Epistles (Galatians, Romans and Corinthians) which the
critics assign to his pen, the thing is observable--and some
learned Germans even speak of TWO Pauls.[1] But also the
thing is quite natural. There can be little doubt that
Paul of Tarsus, a Jew brought up in the strictest sect of
the Pharisees, did at some time fall deeply under the influence
of Greek thought, and quite possibly became an initiate
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: And calling him, as she might now, Pappa phile, Dear Papa, asks
for the mule-waggon: but it is her father's and her five
brothers' clothes she fain would wash, -
Ashamed to name her marriage to her father dear.
But he understood all--and she goes forth in the mule-waggon, with
the clothes, after her mother has put in "a chest of all kinds of
delicate food, and meat, and wine in a goatskin;" and last but not
least, the indispensable cruse of oil for anointing after the
bath, to which both Jews, Greeks, and Romans owed so much health
and beauty. And then we read in the simple verse of a poet too
refined, like the rest of his race, to see anything mean or
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