| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their
sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully
increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public.
And on its part, German Socialism recognised, more and more, its
own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-
bourgeois Philistine.
It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the
German petty Philistine to be the typical man. To every
villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher,
Socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real
character. It went to the extreme length of directly opposing
The Communist Manifesto |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: woman--and with one of your family, too. I simply cannot bear to
think of it."
He was absolutely wringing his hands. My uncle looked at him in
silence.
"Thank you for this warning. I assure you that even if she were
dying she would be carried out to the carriage."
"Yes--indeed--and what difference would it make--travel to Kiev
or back to her husband? For she would have to go--death or no
death. And mind, Mr. B., I will be here on the day, not that I
doubt your promise, but because I must. I have got to. Duty.
All the same my trade is not fit for a dog since some of you
A Personal Record |
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: sermon unless the teacher or the preacher is an artist. You cannot
read the Bible if you have no sense of literary art. The reason why
the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so
surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English
version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions
are comparatively artless. To read a dull book; to listen to a
tedious play or prosy sermon or lecture; to stare at uninteresting
pictures or ugly buildings: nothing, short of disease, is more
dreadful than this. The violence done to our souls by it leaves
injuries and produces subtle maladies which have never been properly
studied by psycho-pathologists. Yet we are so inured to it in school,
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