| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: upon the view defended by our anonymous author. Paul, according
to his own confession, persecuted the Christians unto death. Now
what, in the theories or in the practice of the Jewish disciples
of Jesus, could have moved Paul to such fanatic behaviour?
Certainly not their spiritual interpretation of Mosaism, for Paul
himself belonged to the liberal school of Gamaliel, to the views
of which the teachings and practices of Peter, James, and John
might easily be accommodated. Probably not their belief in Jesus
as the Messiah, for at the riot in which Stephen was murdered and
all the Hellenist disciples driven from Jerusalem, the Jewish
disciples were allowed to remain in the city unmolested. (See
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And as their aching bones they rest,
Their anxious captain scans the west.
So paused Alaric on the Alps
And ciphered up the Roman scalps.
Poem: V - THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER
The howling desert miles around,
The tinkling brook the only sound -
Wearied with all his toils and feats,
The traveller dines on potted meats;
On potted meats and princely wines,
Not wisely but too well he dines.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: why don't you evince satisfaction at my pleasant news? Isabella
swears that the love Edgar has for me is nothing to that she
entertains for you. I'm sure she made some speech of the kind; did
she not, Ellen? And she has fasted ever since the day before
yesterday's walk, from sorrow and rage that I despatched her out of
your society under the idea of its being unacceptable.'
'I think you belie her,' said Heathcliff, twisting his chair to
face them. 'She wishes to be out of my society now, at any rate!'
And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a
strange repulsive animal: a centipede from the Indies, for
instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the
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