| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: adjusted through our efforts.
This was due to perfect candor in talking. Honest opinions were
honestly set forth. Both sides took confidence in each other, and
both sides accepted my suggestions, believing them sincere and
fair. And so I say to the young men that honesty is the best
policy because it is the only policy that wins. The communists
tell the young that honesty is not the best policy. They say that
the rich man teaches the poor to be honest so that the rich can
do all the stealing. They say that the moral code is "dope" given
by the strong to paralyze the weak and keep them down. It is not
so. Honesty is the power that lifts men and nations up to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: America and Europe. In both varieties and species correlation of growth
seems to have played a most important part, so that when one part has been
modified other parts are necessarily modified. In both varieties and
species reversions to long-lost characters occur. How inexplicable on the
theory of creation is the occasional appearance of stripes on the shoulder
and legs of the several species of the horse-genus and in their hybrids!
How simply is this fact explained if we believe that these species have
descended from a striped progenitor, in the same manner as the several
domestic breeds of pigeon have descended from the blue and barred
rock-pigeon!
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, why
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: silver coffee-pot. Everybody laughed at his speech, except the Frau;
everybody roared at his grimaces, and at the way he carried the coffee-pot
to the bridal pair, as if it were a baby he was holding.
She lifted the lid, peeped in, then shut it down with a little scream and
sat biting her lips. The bridegroom wrenched the pot away from her and
drew forth a baby's bottle and two little cradles holding china dolls. As
he dandled these treasures before Theresa the hot room seemed to heave and
sway with laughter.
Frau Brechenmacher did not think it funny. She stared round at the
laughing faces, and suddenly they all seemed strange to her. She wanted to
go home and never come out again. She imagined that all these people were
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