| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: essentially disunited character of the primitive Greek tribes; and
he argues from the line 'O'er many islands and all Argos ruled,' as
applied to Agamemnon, that his forces must have been partially
naval, 'for Agamemnon's was a continental power, and he could not
have been master of any but the adjacent islands, and these would
not be many but through the possession of a fleet.'
Anticipating in some measure the comparative method of research, he
argues from the fact of the more barbarous Greek tribes, such as
the AEtolians and Acarnanians, still carrying arms in his own day,
that this custom was the case originally over the whole country.
'The fact,' he says, 'that the people in these parts of Hellas are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: `As well as YOU can,' said the Tiger-lily. `And a great deal
louder.'
`It isn't manners for us to begin, you know,' said the Rose,
`and I really was wondering when you'd speak! Said I to myself,
"Her face has got SOME sense in it, thought it's not a clever
one!" Still, you're the right colour, and that goes a long way.'
`I don't care about the colour,' the Tiger-lily remarked. `If
only her petals curled up a little more, she'd be all right.'
Alice didn't like being criticised, so she began asking
questions. `Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out
here, with nobody to take care of you?'
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: rest of the tribe; but that something of the same kind
was true with regard to his relation to the Animals and
to Nature at large. This outer world was part of himself,
was also himself. His sub-conscious sense of unity
was so great that it largely dominated his life. That
brain-cleverness and brain-activity which causes modern
man to perceive such a gulf between him and the animals,
or between himself and Nature, did not exist in the early
man. Hence it was no difficulty to him to believe that
he was a Bear or an Emu. Sub-consciously he was wiser
than we are. He knew that he was a bear or an emu, or
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
