| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: outlet in France; it is gathering an avalanche of underrated
capabilities, of legitimate and restless ambitions; young men are not
marrying now; families cannot tell what to do with their children.
What will the thunderclap be that will shake down these masses? I know
not, but they will crash down into the midst of things, and overthrow
everything. These are laws of hydrostatics which act on the human
race; the Roman Empire had failed to understand them, and the Barbaric
hordes came down.
"The Barbaric hordes now are the intelligent class. The laws of
overpressure are at this moment acting slowly and silently in our
midst. The Government is the great criminal; it does not appreciate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy
or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.
It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as
will not offend the imagination; but this, I think, is to be fed
when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table.
Yet perhaps this may be done. The fruits eaten temperately need not
make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest
pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will
poison you. It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands
precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: tongue. By faith, says he, we are the children of God. The Law cannot beget
children of God. It cannot regenerate us. It can only remind us of the old
birth by which we were born into the kingdom of the devil. The best the
Law can do for us is to prepare us for a new birth through faith in Christ
Jesus. Faith in Christ regenerates us into the children of God. St. John bears
witness to this in his Gospel: "As many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."
(John 1:12.) What tongue of man or angel can adequately extol the mercy
of God toward us miserable sinners in that He adopted us for His own
children and fellow-heirs with His Son by the simple means of faith in
Christ Jesus!
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