| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: up-country."
Once again our alphabet fails me. The peculiar shade of kindness, of
recognition, of patronage, which my agreeable hostess (and all Kings Port
ladies, I soon noticed) imparted to the word "up-country" cannot be
conveyed except by the human voice--and only a Kings Port voice at that.
It is a much lighter damnation than what they make of the phrase "from
Georgia," which I was soon to hear uttered by the lips of the lady. "And
so you know about his wedding cake?"
"My dear madam, I feel that I shall know about everything."
Her gray eyes looked at me quietly for a moment. "That is possible. But
although we may talk of ourselves to you, we scarcely expect you to talk
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: quaintly called - is still busy in these parts. The fame of
Vasquez is still young. Only a few years go, the Lakeport
stage was robbed a mile or two from Calistoga. In 1879, the
dentist of Mendocino City, fifty miles away upon the coast,
suddenly threw off the garments of his trade, like Grindoff,
in THE MILLER AND HIS MEN, and flamed forth in his second
dress as a captain of banditti. A great robbery was followed
by a long chase, a chase of days if not of weeks, among the
intricate hill-country; and the chase was followed by much
desultory fighting, in which several - and the dentist, I
believe, amongst the number - bit the dust. The grass was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: to their unions.
To sum up: although the Republican motto has been little
applied it has exerted a very great influence. Of the French
Revolution practically nothing has remained in the popular mind
but the three celebrated words which sum up its gospel, and which
its armies spread over Europe.
BOOK II
THE RATIONAL, AFFECTIVE, MYSTIC, AND COLLECTIVE INFLUENCES ACTIVE
DURING THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
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