| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: idols and do create a lie; verily, those whom ye serve beside God
cannot control for themselves provision; then crave provision with
God, and serve Him, and give thanks to Him; unto Him shall ye
return! And if ye say it is a lie, nations before you called (the
apostles) liars too; but an apostle has only his plain message to
preach!'
Have they not seen how God produces the creation, and then turns
it back? verily, that to God is easy.
Say, 'Journey ye on in the land, and behold how the creation
appeared; then God produces another production: verily, God is
mighty over all!'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: last embrace. I have always been at his side, but he did not see me
near him at the last in my place where I had always been."
"THE MASTER IS DEAD!"
"Alas! he is dead, and I was not there to receive his last words and
his latest sigh. And what did the taxes matter? Would it not have been
better to lose all our money than to leave home just then? Could all
that we have make up to me for the loss of his last farewell. No. MON
DIEU! If YOUR father falls ill, Jean, do not go away and leave him, or
you will lay up a lifelong regret for yourself."
"My friend," said Genestas, "I have seen thousands of men die on the
battlefield; death did not wait to let their children bid them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: any particular state has already reached and into what form it will
be next differentiated, though possibly the exact time of the
changes may be more or less uncertain. (10)
Now in this necessarily incomplete account of the laws of political
revolutions as expounded by Polybius enough perhaps has been said
to show what is his true position in the rational development of
the 'Idea' which I have called the Philosophy of History, because
it is the unifying of history. Seen darkly as it is through the
glass of religion in the pages of Herodotus, more metaphysical than
scientific with Thucydides, Plato strove to seize it by the eagle-
flight of speculation, to reach it with the eager grasp of a soul
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