| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: this was but one case out of many.
His kindliness toward animals was the same. A horde of mange-
corroded curs lived off his bounty, wolfish, ungrateful, often
marking him with their teeth, yet never knowing the meaning of a
harsh word. A burro, over-fed, lazy, incorrigible, browsed on
the hill back of the Mission, obstinately refusing to be
harnessed to Sarria's little cart, squealing and biting whenever
the attempt was made; and the priest suffered him, submitting to
his humour, inventing excuses for him, alleging that the burro
was foundered, or was in need of shoes, or was feeble from
extreme age. The two peacocks, magnificent, proud, cold-hearted,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: all offended. On the contrary, you were so loving, so kind, so friendly
towards me, you received me like an angel, like Jesus Himself."
Indeed, the Galatians are to be commended for receiving the Gospel from a
man as unimposing and afflicted all around as Paul was. Wherever he
preached the Gospel, Jews and Gentiles raved against him. All the
influential and religious people of his day denounced him. But the
Galatians did not mind it. That was greatly to their honor. And Paul does
not neglect to praise them for it. This praise Paul bestows on none of the
other churches to which he wrote.
St. Jerome and others of the ancient fathers allege this infirmity of Paul's to
have been some physical defect, or concupiscence. Jerome and the other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending
transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their
present, but their future interests, they desert their own
standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting
mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here
and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian
revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more
for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at
large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without
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