| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: test this liberality and reveal the flimsiness of the stuff of
which it was made. When the unknown disputant began to declare
"the impossibility of a revelation upon which all men can rest a
solid faith," and when he began to criticize the evidences of
Christ's resurrection, such a storm burst out in the theological
world of Germany as had not been witnessed since the time of
Luther. The recent Colenso controversy in England was but a
gentle breeze compared to it. Press and pulpit swarmed with
"refutations," in which weakness of argument and scantiness of
erudition were compensated by strength of acrimony and
unscrupulousness of slander. Pamphlets and sermons, says M.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: Manchester. Field sports, with the invaluable training which they
give, if not
"The reason firm,"
yet still
"The temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill,"
have become impossible for the greater number: and athletic
exercises are now, in England at least, becoming more and more
artificialized and expensive; and are confined more and more - with
the honourable exception of the football games in Battersea Park -
to our Public Schools and the two elder Universities. All honour,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: I dont want to be bad: I just dont want to be bothered about either
good or bad: I want to be an active verb.
LORD SUMMERHAYS. An active verb? Oh, I see. An active verb
signifies to be, to do, or to suffer.
HYPATIA. Just so: how clever of you! I want to be; I want to do;
and I'm game to suffer if it costs that. But stick here doing nothing
but being good and nice and ladylike I simply wont. Stay down here
with us for a week; and I'll shew you what it means: shew it to you
going on day after day, year after year, lifetime after lifetime.
LORD SUMMERHAYS. Shew me what?
HYPATIA. Girls withering into ladies. Ladies withering into old
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