| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: of the world, get most. David was a holy man and a good king. Nevertheless he
was chased from his own country. The prophets, Christ, the apostles, were
slain. Solomon in this passage does not speak of the love and hatred of God,
but of love and hatred among men. As though Solomon wanted to say: "There
are many good and wise men whom God uses for the advancement of mankind.
Seldom, if ever, are their efforts crowned with gratitude. They are usually
repaid with hatred and ingratitude."
We are being treated that way. We thought we would find favor with men for
bringing them the Gospel of peace, life, and eternal salvation. Instead of
favor, we found fury. At first, yes, many were delighted with our doctrine
and received it gladly. We counted them as our friends and brethren, and were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: sees here or at Paris do not represent the nation, after all."
"The most influential part of it," said Emilia.
"Are you sure, dear?" said her sister. "I do not think they
influence it half so much as a great many people who are too
busy to go to either place. I always remember those hundred
girls at the Normal School, and that they were not at all like
Mrs. Meredith, nor would they care to be like her, any more
than she would wish to be like them."
"They have not had the same advantages," said Emilia.
"Nor the same disadvantages," said Hope. "Some of them are not
so well bred, and none of them speak French so well, for she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: genius of France brought to shame by the artful stupidity of a single
individual; the collective will of the nation, as often as it speaks
through the general suffrage, seeking its true expression in the
prescriptive enemies of the public interests until it finally finds it
in the arbitrary will of a filibuster. If ever a slice from history is
drawn black upon black, it is this. Men and events appear as reversed
"Schlemihls," [#1 The hero In Chamisso's "Peter Schiemihi," who loses
his own shadow.] as shadows, the bodies of which have been lost. The
revolution itself paralyzes its own apostles, and equips only its
adversaries with passionate violence. When the "Red Spectre,"
constantly conjured up and exorcised by the counter-revolutionists
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