| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: "What pirate fellow? The man has been in the ship eleven years,"
I said indignantly.
"It's his looks," Almayer muttered for all apology.
The sun had eaten up the fog. From where we sat under the after
awning we could see in the distance the pony tied up in front of
Almayer's house, to a post of the verandah. We were silent for a
long time. All at once Almayer, alluding evidently to the
subject of his conversation in the captain's cabin, exclaimed
anxiously across the table:
"I really don't know what I can do now!"
Captain C-- only raised his eyebrows at him, and got up from his
Some Reminiscences |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: far know the connection of causes and events as that he may venture
to do wrong in order to do right. When we pursue our end by lawful
means, we may always console our miscarriage by the hope of future
recompense. When we consult only our own policy, and attempt to
find a nearer way to good by over-leaping the settled boundaries of
right and wrong, we cannot be happy even by success, because we
cannot escape the consciousness of our fault; but if we miscarry,
the disappointment is irremediably embittered. How comfortless is
the sorrow of him who feels at once the pangs of guilt and the
vexation of calamity which guilt has brought upon him!
"Consider, Princess, what would have been your condition if the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: both cases: they want to hear nothing good of their enemies;
consequently they remain enemies and suffer from bad blood all their
lives; whereas men who know their opponents and understand their case,
quite commonly respect and like them, and always learn something from
them.
Here, again, as at so many points, we come up against the abuse of
schools to keep people in ignorance and error, so that they may be
incapable of successful revolt against their industrial slavery. The
most important simple fundamental economic truth to impress on a child
in complicated civilizations like ours is the truth that whoever
consumes goods or services without producing by personal effort the
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