| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: foreknowledge that to master Caesar meant only being set at Virgil,
with the culminating horror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end
of that. I preferred Caesar, because his statement that Gaul is
divided into three parts, though neither interesting nor true, was the
only Latin sentence I could translate at sight: therefore the longer
we stuck at Caesar the better I was pleased. Just so do less
classically educated children see nothing in the mastery of addition
but the beginning of subtraction, and so on through multiplication and
division and fractions, with the black cloud of algebra on the
horizon. And if a boy rushes through all that, there is always the
calculus to fall back on, unless indeed you insist on his learning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: words by which all who would be Christians are enjoined to partake of
this Sacrament. Therefore, whoever would be a disciple of Christ, with
whom He here speaks, must also consider and observe this, not from
compulsion, as being forced by men, but in obedience to the Lord Jesus
Christ, and to please Him. However, if you say: But the words are
added, As oft as ye do it; there He compels no one, but leaves it to
our free choice, answer: That is true, yet it is not written that we
should never do so. Yea, just because He speaks the words, As oft as ye
do it, it is nevertheless implied that we should do it often; and it is
added for the reason that He wishes to have the Sacrament free, not
limited to special times, like the Passover of the Jews, which they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: countenance of angelic beauty and expression. Her hair of a shining
raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle,
although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her
complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.
"Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of
sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree
of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed it capable;
his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure; and at that
moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger. She appeared
affected by different feelings; wiping a few tears from her lovely
eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously
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