| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and
dependents. My criticism, therefore, is not directed at the
``failure'' of philanthropy, but rather at its success.
These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and
altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of
human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in
the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into
practice. Readers of Huxley's attack on the Salvation Army will
recall his penetrating and stimulating condemnation of the debauch of
sentimentalism which expressed itself in so uncontrolled a fashion in
the Victorian era. One of the most penetrating of American thinkers,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: responsible Maker. A gust of wind and a swish of
rain answered.
"And as I turned away to shut the door he pro-
nounced the word 'Merciful!' and expired.
"Eventually I certified heart-failure as the im-
mediate cause of death. His heart must have in-
deed failed him, or else he might have stood this
night of storm and exposure, too. I closed his eyes
and drove away. Not very far from the cottage I
met Foster walking sturdily between the dripping
hedges with his collie at his heels.
Amy Foster |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: in the rocks;
PRO 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by
bands;
PRO 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings'
palaces.
PRO 30:29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in
going:
PRO 30:30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away
for any;
PRO 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there
is no rising up.
King James Bible |
