| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: Street--shopkeepers coming to their doors, people
in the houses snatching up their hats to run out--
a stir at which he seemed strangely surprised at
first, and then scared; but his only answer to the
wondering questions was that startled and evasive,
"For the present."
That sensation had been forgotten, long ago;
and Captain Hagberd himself, if not forgotten,
had come to be disregarded--the penalty of daili-
ness--as the sun itself is disregarded unless it
makes its power felt heavily. Captain Hagberd's
To-morrow |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: instances of this holy cursing are recorded in the sacred Scriptures,
especially in the Psalms, e.g., "Let death seize upon them, and let them go
down quick into hell." (Ps. 55:15.)
THE DOCTRINE OF GOOD WORKS
Now come all kinds of admonitions and precepts. It was the custom of the
apostles that after they had taught faith and instructed the conscience they
followed it up with admonitions unto good works, that the believers
might manifest the duties of love toward each other. In order to avoid the
appearance as if Christianity militated against good works or opposed civil
government, the Apostle also urges us to give ourselves unto good works,
to lead an honest life, and to keep faith and love with one another. This
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: or to make flame burn downward, or to make a tree grow with its head
in the earth and its root in the air?"
"So then," said the baron, "a girl's mind is as hard to change as nature and
the elements, and it is easier to make her renounce the devil than a lover.
Are you a match for the devil, and no match for a man?"
"My warfare," said the friar, "is not of this world.
I am militant not against man, but the devil, who goes about
seeking what he may devour."
"Oh! does he so?" said the baron: "then I take it that makes you look for him
so often in my buttery. Will you cast out the devil whose name is Legion,
when you cannot cast out the imp whose name is Love?"
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