| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: almost impossible in any part of the civilized world is the
increased commercial solidarity of civilized nations. Increased
facility of distribution has operated no less effectively than
improved methods of production.
Now, in 1770 the province of Lower Bengal was in a state of
almost complete commercial isolation from other communities.
Importation of food on an adequate scale was hardly possible. "A
single fact speaks volumes as to the isolation of each district.
An abundant harvest, we are repeatedly told, was as disastrous to
the revenues as a bad one; for, when a large quantity of grain
had to be carried to market, the cost of carriage swallowed up
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: mate, and his brother and his kin who stand by him, and all who are in
the earth, that yet it might rescue him!
Nay, verily, it is a flame,-dragging by the scalp! it shall call
those who retreated and turned their backs and who amassed and
hoarded!
Verily, man is by nature rash! when evil touches him, very
impatient; when good touches him, niggardly; all save those who
pray, who remain at their prayers, and in whose wealth is a reasonable
due (set aside) for him who asks and him who is kept from asking,
and those who believe in a day of judgment, and those who shrink in
terror from the torment of their Lord;-verily, the torment of their
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: voice within a man's own breast, which tells him that his life is
of consequence to himself, is seconded by that of numbers around
him, who assure him that it is of equal advantage to the public,
history affords many examples of men more habitually daring than
Argyle, who have consulted self-preservation when the temptations
to it were so powerfully increased.
"See him on board, if you will, Sir Duncan," said Auchenbreck to
his kinsman; "It must be my duty to prevent this spirit from
spreading farther among us."
So saying, he threw himself among the ranks, entreating,
commanding, and conjuring the soldiers, to remember their ancient
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