| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: And when I have fashioned it, and breathed into it of my spirit,
then fall ye down before it adoring.'
And the angels adored all of them together, save Iblis, who
refused to be among those who adored.
He said, 'O Iblis! what ails thee that thou art not among those
who adore?'
Said he, 'I would not adore a mortal whom Thou hast created from
crackling clay of black mud wrought into form.'
He said, 'Then get thee forth therefrom, and, verily, thou art to be
pelted! And, verily, the curse is upon thee until the day of
judgment.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: that Rabourdin was engaged in some great work outside of his official
labors, and he was provoked to feel that he knew nothing about it,
whereas that little Sebastien was, wholly or in part, in the secret.
Dutocq was intimate with Godard, under-head-clerk to Baudoyer, and the
high esteem in which Dutocq held Baudoyer was the original cause of
his acquaintance with Godard; not that Dutocq was sincere even in
this; but by praising Baudoyer and saying nothing of Rabourdin he
satisfied his hatred after the fashion of little minds.
Joseph Godard, a cousin of Mitral on the mother's side, made
pretension to the hand of Mademoiselle Baudoyer, not perceiving that
her mother was laying siege to Falliex as a son-in-law. He brought
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: questions worthy attention, not of statesmen only and medical men,
but of every father and mother in these isles. I shall say
somewhat about them in this Essay; and say it in a form which
ought to be intelligible to fathers and mothers of every class,
from the highest to the lowest, in hopes of convincing some of
them at least that the science of health, now so utterly neglected
in our curriculum of so-called education, ought to be taught--the
rudiments of it at least--in every school, college, and
university.
We talk of our hardy forefathers; and rightly. But they were
hardy, just as the savage is usually hardy, because none but the
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