| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily
more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the
bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world-market, to
uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of
life corresponding thereto.
The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still
faster.
United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is
one of
the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: STRANGER: And now, following this pattern, let us endeavour to find out
what a Sophist is.
THEAETETUS: By all means.
STRANGER: The first question about the angler was, whether he was a
skilled artist or unskilled?
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: And shall we call our new friend unskilled, or a thorough master
of his craft?
THEAETETUS: Certainly not unskilled, for his name, as, indeed, you imply,
must surely express his nature.
STRANGER: Then he must be supposed to have some art.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: more sentimental acquaintances. Alfred believes in immortality
so strongly because his temperament is so emotional. Fanny's
extraordinary conscientiousness is merely a matter of
overinstigated nerves. William's melancholy about the universe
is due to bad digestion--probably his liver is torpid. Eliza's
delight in her church is a symptom of her hysterical
constitution. Peter would be less troubled about his soul if he
would take more exercise in the open air, etc. A more fully
developed example of the same kind of reasoning is the fashion,
quite common nowadays among certain writers, of criticizing the
religious emotions by showing a connection between them and the
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