| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: would be to suspend the life of Nature. The god Siva, to
whom the Tipperahs of Bengal are supposed to have sacrificed
as many as a thousand human victims a year, said to the
Brahamins: 'It is I that am the actual offering; it is I that
you butcher upon my altars.' "
[1] Ch. ix, v. 16.
[2] Primitive Folk, ch. vi.
It was in allusion to this doctrine that R. W. Emerson,
paraphrasing the Katha-Upanishad, wrote that immortal verse
of his:-
If the red slayer thinks he slays,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Time's flight by them was heard.
Some soft piano-notes alone
Were sweet as faintly given,
Where ladies, doubtless, cheered the hearth
With song that winter-even.
The city's many-mingled sounds
Rose like the hum of ocean;
They rather lulled the heart than roused
Its pulse to faster motion.
Gilbert has paced the single walk
An hour, yet is not weary;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: revealed here which society could not hope to deal with
successfully--VANITY, thirst for notoriety. If men were going to
kill for notoriety's sake, and to win the glory of newspaper
renown, a big trial, and a showy execution, what possible
invention of man could discourage or deter them? The town was in
a sort of panic; it did not know what to do.
However, the grand jury had to take hold of the matter--it
had no choice. It brought in a true bill, and presently the case
went to the county court. The trial was a fine sensation. The
prisoner was the principal witness for the prosecution. He gave
a full account of the assassination; he furnished even the
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