| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: wiser than the Almighty. Why not? They were not the first, nor
will be the last, by many who have made the same attempt. So this
Council of State settled arbitrarily, not only taxes, and militia,
and roads, but anything and everything. Its members meddled, with
their whole hearts and minds. They tried to teach agriculture by
schools and pamphlets and prizes; they sent out plans for every
public work. A town could not establish an octroi, levy a rate,
mortgage, sell, sue, farm, or administer their property, without an
order in council. The Government ordered public rejoicings, saw to
the firing of salutes, and illuminating of houses--in one case
mentioned by M. de Tocqueville, they fined a member of the burgher
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Thus falls great Cromwell a poor ell in length,
To rise to unmeasured height, winged with new strength,
The land of Worms, which dying men discover,
My soul is shrined with heaven's celestial cover.
[Exit Cromwell and the officers, and others.]
BEDFORD.
Well, farewell, Cromwell, the truest friend,
That ever Bedford shall possess again.--
Well, Lords, I fear, when this man is dead,
You'll wish in vain that Cromwell had a head.
[Enter one with Cromwell's head.]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: men's grossness, he employed these names when he would make known
to them the future. So, as he telleth, the king with high
proclamation called all to come to the marriage to take their
fill of his wondrous store of good things. But many of them that
were bidden made light of it and came not, and busied themselves:
some went to their farms, some to their merchandize, and others
to their newly wedded wives, and thus deprived themselves of the
splendour of the bride chamber. Now when these had, of their own
choice, absented themselves from this joyous merriment, others
were bidden thereto, and the wedding was furnished with guests.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man
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