| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: This doctrine is properly called Anarchist Com-
munism, but as it embraces practically all modern
Anarchism, we may ignore individualist Anarchism
altogether and concentrate attention upon the
communistic form. Socialism and Anarchist Communism
alike have arisen from the perception that private
capital is a source of tyranny by certain individuals
over others. Orthodox Socialism believes that the
individual will become free if the State becomes the
sole capitalist. Anarchism, on the contrary, fears
that in that case the State might merely inherit the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Bread I dip in the river -
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life for ever.
Let the blow fall soon or late,
Let what will be o'er me;
Give the face of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: purpose. At her first attempt, she began to write with a dry
pen, and when the circumstance was pointed out, seemed unable,
after several attempts, to dip it in the massive silver ink-
standish, which stood full before her. Lady Ashton's vigilance
hastened to supply the deficiency. I have myself seen the fatal
deed, and in the distinct characters in which the name of Lucy
Ashton is traced on each page there is only a very slight
tremulous
irregularity, indicative of her state of mind at the time of the
subscription. But the last signature is incomplete, defaced, and
blotted; for, while her hand was employed in tracing it, the
The Bride of Lammermoor |
