| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: Independence, for Valley Forge--thus established in the regular way of
all complexes, this anti-English complex is fed and watered by what we
learn of the War of 1812, by what we learn of the Civil War of 1861, and
by many lesser events in our history thus far. And just as a Republican
will admit nothing good of a Democrat and a Democrat nothing good of a
Republican because of the political complex, so does the great--the
vast--majority of Americans automatically and easily remember everything
against England and forget everything in her favor. Just try it any day
you like. Ask any average American you are sitting next to in a train what
he knows about England; and if he does remember anything and can tell it
to you, it will be unfavorable nine times in ten. The mere word "England"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: more conscious, did it evolve itself into the definite forms
of the gods and the creeds--but of that process I will speak
more in detail presently.
The Tree therefore was a most intimate presence to the
Man. It grew in the very midst of his Garden of Eden. It
had a magical virtue, which his tentative science could
only explain by chance analogies and assimilations. Attractive
and beloved and worshipped by reason of its
many gifts to mankind--its grateful shelter, its abounding
fruits, its timber, and other invaluable products--why should
it not become the natural emblem of the female, to
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: through him and for him. To make men understand the strength of this
feeling, it suffices to add that the son was not only the sole child
of Madame de Dey, but also her last relation, the only being in the
world to whom the fears and hopes and joys of her life could be
naturally attached.
The late Comte de Dey was the last surviving scion of his family, and
she herself was the sole heiress of her own. Human interests and
projects combined, therefore, with the noblest deeds of the soul to
exalt in this mother's heart a sentiment that is always so strong in
the hearts of women. She had brought up this son with the utmost
difficulty, and with infinite pains, which rendered the youth still
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