| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: you Arty Nares: you seen Arty; first-rate navigator and a son of
a gun for style." And he proceeded to explain to me that Mr.
Nares, who had the promise of a fine barque in six months,
after things had quieted down, was in the meantime living very
private, and would be pleased to have a change of air.
I called out Pinkerton and told him. "Nares!" he cried, as soon
as I had come to the name. "I would jump at the chance of a
man that had had Nares's trousers on! Why, Loudon, he's the
smartest deep-water mate out of San Francisco, and draws his
dividends regular in service and out." This hearty indorsation
clinched the proposal; Johnson agreed to produce Nares before
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: one below fifty-three; the oldest of them is ninety-one, while
the average age of the goodly company is seventy. There have been
men in history who have retained their flexibility of mind, their
ability to adjust themselves to new circumstances at the age of
seventy, but it will always be found that these men were trained
in science and practical affairs, never in dead languages and
theology. One of the oldest of the English prelates, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, recently stated to a newspaper reporter
that he worked seventeen hours a day, and had no time to form an
opinion on the labor question.
And now--here is the crux of the argument--do these aged
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: No God but in a prophet's lie,
No faith for "honest doubt" to keep;
If there be nothing, good or bad,
But chaos for a soul to trust, --
God counts it for a soul gone mad,
And if God be God, He is just.
And if God be God, He is Love;
And though the Dawn be still so dim,
It shows us we have played enough
With creeds that make a fiend of Him.
There is one creed, and only one,
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