| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: you evil or inflict such upon you. For to do evil to one who wishes and
does you good is not human, but diabolical.
Secondly, under this commandment not only he is guilty who does evil to
his neighbor, but he also who can do him good, prevent, resist evil,
defend and save him, so that no bodily harm or hurt happen to him and
yet does not do it. If, therefore, you send away one that is naked when
you could clothe him, you have caused him to freeze to death; you see
one suffer hunger and do not give him food, you have caused him to
starve. So also, if you see any one innocently sentenced to death or in
like distress, and do not save him, although you know ways and means to
do so, you have killed him. And it will not avail you to make the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: advantage up to the very moment that he came within sight
or hearing; but in the stalking of the dull clod, man, he ap-
proached with almost contemptuous indifference, so that all
the jungle about him knew that he was passing -- all but the
men he stalked.
From the dense foliage of a great tree he watched them
pass -- a disreputable mob of blacks, some garbed in the uni-
form of German East African native troops, others wearing a
single garment of the same uniform, while many had reverted
to the simple dress of their forbears -- approximating nudity.
There were many black women with them, laughing and talk-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: "Of course, whatever happens, I must get back on the
first, because Fanny Beaufort and I are to be married
on the fifth."
The voice began again: "Think it over? No, sir: not a
minute. You've got to say yes now. Why not, I'd like to
know? If you can allege a single reason--No; I knew it.
Then it's a go, eh? Because I count on you to ring up
the Cunard office first thing tomorrow; and you'd better
book a return on a boat from Marseilles. I say,
Dad; it'll be our last time together, in this kind of
way--. Oh, good! I knew you would."
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