| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land.
DAN 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast
down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon
them.
DAN 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and
by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the
sanctuary was cast down.
DAN 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by
reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and
it practised, and prospered.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: own effort, the millions of soldiers, the innumerable guns, the
endless torrent of supplies that pour into France to avenge the
little army of Mons. It seems natural to us that we should so
exert ourselves under the circumstances. I suppose it is
wonderful, but, as a sample Englishman, I do not feel that it is
at all wonderful. I did not feel it wonderful even when I saw
the British aeroplanes lording it in the air over Martinpuich,
and not a German to be seen. Since Michael would have it so,
there, at last, they were.
There was a good deal of doubt in France about the vigour of the
British effort, until the Somme offensive. All that had been
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: He wandered the unmeasurable All.
Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports
What things can rise to being, what cannot,
And by what law to each its scope prescribed,
Its boundary stone that clings so deep in Time.
Wherefore Religion now is under foot,
And us his victory now exalts to heaven.
I know how hard it is in Latian verse
To tell the dark discoveries of the Greeks,
Chiefly because our pauper-speech must find
Strange terms to fit the strangeness of the thing;
Of The Nature of Things |
