| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way.
Sometimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.
The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes
less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots
the rope about her loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep.
She marches forwards. She is a seeker.
This arises from the fact that she is an artist.
The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic,
the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true.
Artistic peoples are also consistent peoples. To love beauty is
to see the light. That is why the torch of Europe, that is to say
Les Miserables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support
them. Schools of a superior kind were founded in the same manner
in the more populous districts. The municipal authorities were
bound to enforce the sending of children to school by their
parents; they were empowered to inflict fines upon all who
refused compliance; and in case of continued resistance society
assumed the place of the parent, took possession of the child,
and deprived the father of those natural rights which he used to
so bad a purpose. The reader will undoubtedly have remarked the
preamble of these enactments: in America religion is the road to
knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: way of making a communication. Mr. and Mrs. Darling knew at once
that something terrible was happening in their nursery, and
without a good-bye to their hostess they rushed into the street.
But it was now ten minutes since three scoundrels had been
breathing behind the curtains, and Peter Pan can do a great deal
in ten minutes.
We now return to the nursery.
"It's all right," John announced, emerging from his hiding-
place. "I say, Peter, can you really fly?"
Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room,
taking the mantelpiece on the way.
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