| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: and go on to another answer almost as popular as the last.
We are told that the might of Islam lay in a certain innate force and
savage virtue of the Arab character. If we have discovered this in the
followers of Mohammed, they certainly had not discovered it in
themselves. They spoke of themselves, rightly or wrongly, as men who
had received a divine light, and that light a moral light, to teach them
to love that which was good, and refuse that which was evil; and to that
divine light they stedfastly and honestly attributed every right action
of their lives. Most noble and affecting, in my eyes, is that answer of
Saad's aged envoy to Yezdegird, king of Persia, when he reproached him
with the past savagery and poverty of the Arabs. "Whatsoever thou hast
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Rang by the white mouth of the violent Glem;
And in the four loud battles by the shore
Of Duglas; that on Bassa; then the war
That thundered in and out the gloomy skirts
Of Celidon the forest; and again
By castle Gurnion, where the glorious King
Had on his cuirass worn our Lady's Head,
Carved of one emerald centered in a sun
Of silver rays, that lightened as he breathed;
And at Caerleon had he helped his lord,
When the strong neighings of the wild white Horse
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
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DAMYATA: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded 420
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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