| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: With Arcady for judge, my claim contest,
With Arcady for judge great Pan himself
Should own him foiled, and from the field retire.
Begin to greet thy mother with a smile,
O baby-boy! ten months of weariness
For thee she bore: O baby-boy, begin!
For him, on whom his parents have not smiled,
Gods deem not worthy of their board or bed.
ECLOGUE V
MENALCAS MOPSUS
MENALCAS
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: same proportion make greater or less progress in the knowledge of nature.
This was what I had hoped to make known by the treatise I had written, and
so clearly to exhibit the advantage that would thence accrue to the public,
as to induce all who have the common good of man at heart, that is, all who
are virtuous in truth, and not merely in appearance, or according to opinion,
as well to communicate to me the experiments they had already made, as to
assist me in those that remain to be made.
But since that time other reasons have occurred to me, by which I have
been led to change my opinion, and to think that I ought indeed to go on
committing to writing all the results which I deemed of any moment, as
soon as I should have tested their truth, and to bestow the same care upon
Reason Discourse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: rewarded I cannot understand. Yet I cannot be false to my trust, nor break my
word by compromising. Still, I have resolved that no more deaths shall be upon
my head. I have willed the many millions I lately received to their rightful
owners. Let the stalwart sons of Eben Hale work out their own salvation. Ere
you read this I shall have passed on. The Minions of Midas are all-powerful.
The police are impotent. I have learned from them that other millionnaires
have been likewise mulcted or persecuted--how many is not known, for when one
yields to the M. of M., his mouth is thenceforth sealed. Those who have not
yielded are even now reaping their scarlet harvest. The grim game is being
played out. The Federal Government can do nothing. I also understand that
similar branch organizations have made their appearance in Europe. Society is
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