| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Goodman - a book dear to Milton - where female rule was
briefly characterised as a "monster in nature and disorder
among men." (2) Any who may ever have doubted, or been for a
moment led away by Knox or Goodman, or their own wicked
imaginations, are now more than convinced. They have seen
the accidental star. Aylmer, with his eye set greedily on a
possible bishopric, and "the better to obtain the favour of
the new Queen," (3) sharpens his pen to confound Knox by
logic. What need? He has been confounded by facts. "Thus
what had been to the refugees of Geneva as the very word of
God, no sooner were they back in England than, behold! it was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: of bed?" Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the
world to the other both in mind and body; to try the manners
of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see
sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to
circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a
mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to
applaud HERNANI. There is some meaning in the old theory
about wild oats; and a man who has not had his green-sickness
and got done with it for good, is as little to be depended on
as an unvaccinated infant. "It is extraordinary," says Lord
Beaconsfield, one of the brightest and best preserved of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: officials of Peking subscribed liberally, and the Empress Dowager
sent her check for 11,000 taels, equal to $9,000 in American
gold, and appointed Prince Chun to represent the Chinese
government at its dedication. At this meeting Sir Robert Hart
made an address on behalf of the foreigners, and Na Tung on
behalf of the Chinese. Although Prince Chun took no public part
in the exercises, he privately expressed his gratification at
seeing the completion of such an up-to-date hospital and medical
school in the Chinese capital.
I have given these incidents in the life of Prince Chun to show
that he has had facilities for knowing the world better than any
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