| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: and publish the secret election of her heart, has nothing left but to
fly to motherhood. When earth fails, the soul makes for heaven!
One hard truth emerges from all that you have said. Only men who are
really great know how to love, and now I understand the reason of
this. Man obeys two forces--one sensual, one spiritual. Weak or
inferior men mistake the first for the last, whilst great souls know
how to clothe the merely natural instinct in all the graces of the
spirit. The very strength of this spiritual passion imposes severe
self-restraint and inspires them with reverence for women. Clearly,
feeling is sensitive in proportion to the calibre of the mental powers
generally, and this is why the man of genius alone has something of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages,
but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of
buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production,
and of the bourgeoisie itself.
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private
property. But in your existing society, private property is
already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its
existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the
hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with
intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary
condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: desired; but Number Two shows a marked advance along
certain lines, and I am sure that tomorrow will divulge
in experiment Number Three such strides as will forever
silence any propensity toward scoffing which you may
now entertain."
"Forgive me, Professor," von Horn hastened to urge.
"I did not intend to deride the wonderful discoveries
which you have made, but it is only natural that we
should both realize that Number One is not beautiful.
To one another we may say what we would not think of
suggesting to outsiders."
The Monster Men |
