| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: various internal contests that arose his will generally
prevailed.
[3] The first and most important volume appeared in 1867;
the other two volumes were published posthumously (1885 and
1894).
The most essential of Marx's doctrines may be
reduced to three: first, what is called the material-
istic interpretation of history; second, the law of the
concentration of capital; and, third, the class-war.
1. The Materialistic Interpretation of History.--
Marx holds that in the main all the phenomena of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: and the other heavenly bodies, I was led to marvel at their fair
order. And, when I beheld the world and all that therein is, how
it is moved by law, I understood that he who moveth and
sustaineth it is God. That which moveth is ever stronger than
that which is moved, and that which sustaineth is stronger than
that which is sustained. Him therefore I call God, who
constructed all things and sustaineth them, without beginning,
without end, immortal, without want, above all passions, and
failings, such as anger, forgetfulness, ignorance, and the like.
By him all things consist. He hath no need of sacrifice, or
drink-offering, or of any of the things that we see, but all men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: XXVI
On all parts else the fort was strong by site,
With mighty hills defenced from foreign rage,
And to this part the tyrant gan unite
His subjects born and bands that serve for wage,
From this exploit he spared nor great nor lite,
The aged men, and boys of tender age,
To fire of angry war still brought new fuel,
Stones, darts, lime, brimstone and bitumen cruel.
XXVII
All full of arms and weapons was the wall,
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