| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in
six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there
is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you-
your Lord! Then worship Him- do ye not mind?
To Him is your return all of you- God's promise in truth; verily, He
produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may
recompense those who believe and do what is right with justice; but
those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and
grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve.
He it is who made the sun for a brightness, and the moon for a
light, and decreed for it mansions, that ye may know the number of the
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: that I had then written a part of the present volume: my first MS.
notes on the subject of expression bear the date of the year 1838.
All the authors who have written on Expression, with the exception
of Mr. Spencer--the great expounder of the principle of Evolution--
appear to have been firmly convinced that species, man of
course included, came into existence in their present condition.
Sir C. Bell, being thus convinced, maintains that many of our
facial muscles are "purely instrumental in expression;" or are "a
special provision" for this sole object.[12] But the simple fact
that the anthropoid apes possess the same facial muscles as we
do,[13] renders it very improbable that these muscles in our
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: utterly away. Gone are the crack clippers, the driving captains,
the hard-bitten but efficient foremast hands. Remain only
crawling cargo tanks, dirty tramps, greyhound liners, and a
sombre, sordid type of sailing ship. The only records broken to-
day by sailing vessels are those for slowness. They are no longer
built for speed, nor are they manned before the mast by as sturdy
a sailor stock, nor aft the mast are they officered by sail-
carrying captains and driving mates.
Speed is left to the liners, who run the silk, and tea, and
spices. Admiralty courts, boards of trade, and underwriters frown
upon driving and sail-carrying. No more are the free-and-easy,
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