| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: Association meeting--that a species is modified by the sudden
appearance of eccentric individuals here and there in the general
mass who interbreed--preferentially. Helped by a streak of antic
egotism in themselves, they conceived of the superman as a
posturing personage, misunderstood by the vulgar, fantastic,
wonderful. But the antic Personage, the thing I have called the
Effigy, is not new but old, the oldest thing in history, the
departing thing. It depends not upon the advance of the species
but upon the uncritical hero-worship of the crowd. You may see
the monster drawn twenty times the size of common men upon the
oldest monuments of Egypt and Assyria. The true superman comes
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Do it for thy true Loue take:
Loue and languish for his sake.
Be it Ounce, or Catte, or Beare,
Pard, or Boare with bristled haire,
In thy eye that shall appeare,
When thou wak'st, it is thy deare,
Wake when some vile thing is neere.
Enter Lisander and Hermia.
Lis. Faire loue, you faint with wandring in y woods,
And to speake troth I haue forgot our way:
Wee'll rest vs Hermia, If you thinke it good,
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: PROTARCHUS: Of course you must.
SOCRATES: Let us be very careful in laying the foundation.
PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?
SOCRATES: Let us divide all existing things into two, or rather, if you do
not object, into three classes.
PROTARCHUS: Upon what principle would you make the division?
SOCRATES: Let us take some of our newly-found notions.
PROTARCHUS: Which of them?
SOCRATES: Were we not saying that God revealed a finite element of
existence, and also an infinite?
PROTARCHUS: Certainly.
|
