| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: must be some particular point between the two extremes,
in which a sufficiency of the former remains, and a proper
increase of the latter is obtained: And that point of time
is the present time.
The reader will pardon this digression, as it does not properly
come under the head I first set out with, and to which I again return
by the following position, viz.
Should affairs he patched up with Britain, and she to remain the governing
and sovereign power of America, (which, as matters are now circumstanced,
is giving up the point entirely) we shall deprive ourselves of the very means
of sinking the debt we have, or may contract. The value of the back lands
Common Sense |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: to cling in case of accident. Once over, the dogs were called to
follow. And on such a bridge, where the absence of the centre ice
was masked by the snow, one of the Indians met his end. He went
through as quickly and neatly as a knife through thin cream, and
the current swept him from view down under the stream ice.
That night his mate fled away through the pale moonlight, Rasmunsen
futilely puncturing the silence with his revolver--a thing that he
handled with more celerity than cleverness. Thirty-six hours later
the Indian made a police camp on the Big Salmon.
"Um--um--um funny mans--what you call?--top um head all loose," the
interpreter explained to the puzzled captain. "Eh? Yep, clazy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: before them asked leave. Thus does God explain to you His signs, for
God is knowing, wise.
And those women who have stopped (child-bearing), who do not hope
for a match, it is no crime on them that they put off their clothes so
as not to display their ornaments; but that they abstain is better for
them, for God both hears and knows.
There is no hindrance to the blind, and no hindrance to the lame,
and no hindrance to the sick, and none upon yourselves that you eat
from your houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your
mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your
sisters, or the houses of your paternal uncles, or the houses of
The Koran |
