| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: as a week might pass without the shelter of so much
as a hut, it was necessary to take tents and bearskin
beds for the Chamberlain, his Cossack guard, valet-
de-chambre, cook and other servants, one set of fine
blankets and linen, cooking utensils, axes, arms,
tinder-boxes, provisions for the entire trip, besides
a great quantity of personal luggage.
Rezanov lost no time. He had changed his origi-
nal plan and dispatched Davidov on the Avos from
Oonalaska. Guns and provisions awaited the Juno
at Okhotsk, and in less than a week after his ar-
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "Old Broodviol smoothed his face, and said, 'This perhaps will not be
so difficult. I will explain the marvel. Every man and woman among
us is a walking murderer. If a male, he has struggled with and
killed the female who was born in the same body with him - if a
female, she has killed the male. But in this child the struggle is
still continuing.'
"'How shall we end it?' asked my mother.
"'Let the child direct its will to the scene of the combat, and it
will be of whichever sex it pleases.'
"'You want, of course, to be a man, don't you?' said my mother to me
earnestly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: church doctrine. This learned divine--he has written many such
works, as the advertisements inform us--fills up the greater part
of his pages with foot-notes from hundreds of authorities,
arguments and counter-arguments over supernatural subtleties. I
will give one sample of these footnotes--asking the reader to be
patient:
I add the following valuable observation, of Dean Goode: ("On
Eucharist", II p 757. See also Archbishop Ware in Gibson's
"Preservative", vol X, Chap II) "One great point for which our
divines have contended, in opposition to Romish errors, has been
the reality of that presence of Christ's Body and Blood to the
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