| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: but at present I only desire to draw attention to them in
the rough, so to speak, to show that it is from them and
from their passage one into another that there has flowed
by a perfectly natural logic and concatenation the strange
panorama of humanity's religious evolution--its superstitions
and magic and sacrifices and dancings and ritual generally,
and later its incantations and prophecies, and services
of speech and verse, and paintings and forms of art
and figures of the gods. A wonderful Panorama indeed,
or poem of the Centuries, or, if you like, World-symphony
with three great leading motives!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: yea, poisons! - by the sight.' - All which was hardly
claratory to the boy's mind.
Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to
Francie. Traquair was a good shot and swordsman: and it was
his pleasure to walk with his son over the braes of the
moorfowl, or to teach him arms in the back court, when they
made a mighty comely pair, the child being so lean, and
light, and active, and the laird himself a man of a manly,
pretty stature, his hair (the periwig being laid aside)
showing already white with many anxieties, and his face of an
even, flaccid red. But this day Francie's heart was not in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: degree of perfection.
The above facts will indicate that we need not hope to
find the business of toy-making, or the science of child-
education in a very advanced state in China--the most
Asiatic country of Asia. Child's play and toy-making have
been organized into a business and a science in Europe, as
astronomy, which had been studied so long in Asia, was
developed into a science by the Greeks. And so we find
that what is taught in the kindergarten of the West is
learned in the streets of the East; and the toys which are
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