| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: (All of a Midsummer morn)!
Surely we sing no little thing,
In Oak and Ash and Thorn!
Oak of the Clay lived many a day,
Or ever Aeneas began;
Ash of the Loam was a lady at home,
When Brut was an outlaw man;
Thorn of the Down saw New Troy Town
(From which was London born);
Witness hereby the ancientry
Of Oak and Ash and Thorn!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: adorned with fine young people. So St. Paul teaches his disciple
Titus, that he should rightly instruct and govern all classes,
young and old, men and women. But now he goes to school who
wishes; he is taught who governs and teaches himself; nay, it
has, alas! come to such a pass that the places where good should
be taught have become schools of knavery, and no one at all takes
thought for the wild youth.
VIII. If the above order prevailed, one could say how honor and
obedience should be given to the spiritual authority. But now the
case is like that of the natural parents who let their children
do as they please; at present the spiritual authority threatens,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: Cape de Verde islands
Cape of Good Hope, plants of
Carrier-pigeons killed by hawks
Cassini on flowers of composita
Catasetum
Cats, with blue eyes, deaf; variation in habits of; curling tail when going
to spring
Cattle destroying fir-trees; destroyed by flies in La Plata; breeds of,
locally extinct; fertility of Indian and European breeds
Cave, inhabitants of, blind
Centres of creation
On the Origin of Species |
