| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: set to work to tear down an old and ramshackle building, it is
not from blind destructfulness, but as an architect who means to
put a new and sounder structure in its place. Before we part
company, I shall submit the blue print of that new home of the
spirit.
BOOK ONE
The Church of the Conquerors
I saw the Conquerors riding by
With trampling feet of horse and men:
Empire on empire like the tide
Flooded the world and ebbed again;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: thrill that ran down from finger-tip to toe! Then the water
boiled. He broke for the fly and got it. There remained enough
sense in me to give him all he wanted when he jumped not once,
but twenty times, before the up-stream flight that ran my line
out to the last half-dozen turns, and I saw the nickelled
reel-bar glitter under the thinning green coils. My thumb was
burned deep when I strove to stopper the line.
I did not feel it till later, for my soul was out in the dancing
weir, praying for him to turn ere he took my tackle away. And
the prayer was heard. As I bowed back, the butt of the rod on my
left hip-bone and the top joint dipping like unto a weeping
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: menace of the Austrian troops already within our bound-
aries, but we shall have Serbia to help us.
"A Serbian army corps is on the frontier at this moment
awaiting word from Lutha. If it is adverse to Austria that
army corps will cross the border and march to our assist-
ance. If it is favorable to Austria it will none the less cross
into Lutha, but as enemies instead of allies. Serbia has
acted honorably toward Lutha. She has not violated our
neutrality. She has no desire to increase her possessions in
this direction.
"On the other hand, Austria has violated her treaty with
The Mad King |
