| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: nor the criticism grows impassioned about the products of that bazaar.
Forced to make the selection for itself, which in former days the
examining jury made for it, the attention of the public is soon
wearied and the exhibition closes. Before the year 1817 the pictures
admitted never went beyond the first two columns of the long gallery
of the old masters; but in that year, to the great astonishment of the
public, they filled the whole space. Historical, high-art, genre
paintings, easel pictures, landscapes, flowers, animals, and water-
colors,--these eight specialties could surely not offer more than
twenty pictures in one year worthy of the eyes of the public, which,
indeed, cannot give its attention to a greater number of such works.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 8 Bom, led by men, joyous, and purified, let the Light-finder
make all
blessings flow:
9 Indu, while cleansed, keeping the people safe, shall give
us all
possessions for our own.
10 Flow on for wisdom, Soma, and for power, as a strong courser
bathed, to win the prize.
11 The pressers purify this juice of thine, the Soma, for delight,
and
lofty fame
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: suddenly snapped, would have formed around the sun sundry
concentric rings resembling that of Saturn. In their turn,
again, these rings of cosmical matter, excited by a rotary
motion about the central mass, would have been broken up and
decomposed into secondary nebulosities, that is to say,
into planets. Similarly he would have observed these planets
throw off one or more rings each, which became the origin of the
secondary bodies which we call satellites.
Thus, then, advancing from atom to molecule, from molecule to
nebulous mass, from that to principal star, from star to sun,
from sun to planet, and hence to satellite, we have the whole
From the Earth to the Moon |
