| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: spectacles necessitated by the too diligent study of German text,
and arrest chance disturbers of the public peace for a miserably
small salary per month.
Our youth has now reached the flowering season of life, that brief
May time when the whole world takes on the rose-tint, and when by
all dramatic laws he ought to fall in love. He does nothing of the
kind. Sad to say, he is a stranger to the feeling. Love, as we
understand the word, is a thing unknown to the Far East;
fortunately, indeed, for the possession there of the tender passion
would be worse than useless. Its indulgence would work no end of
disturbance to the community at large, beside entailing much misery
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: And in the Porches of mine eares did poure
The leaperous Distilment; whose effect
Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,
That swift as Quick-siluer, it courses through
The naturall Gates and Allies of the body;
And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset
And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke,
The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;
And a most instant Tetter bak'd about,
Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
All my smooth Body.
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Colonization Society, and on its probable Results," by Mr. Carey,
Philadelphia, 1833.]
[Footnote u: This last regulation was laid down by the founders
of the settlement; they apprehended that a state of things might
arise in Africa similar to that which exists on the frontiers of
the United States, and that if the negroes, like the Indians,
were brought into collision with a people more enlightened than
themselves, they would be destroyed before they could be
civilized.]
This is indeed a strange caprice of fortune. Two hundred
years have now elapsed since the inhabitants of Europe undertook
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