| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: they have been of to me--and none more than the bad--in pointing out
to me in future, or rather, after times, the faults it became me to
watch and to avoid.
'As I never looked over one of my papers a year after it was written
without believing both in philosophy and manner it could have been
much better done, I still hope the collection may be of great use to
me.
'M. Faraday.
'Aug. 18, 1832.'
'None more than the bad!' This is a bit of Faraday's innermost nature;
and as I read these words I am almost constrained to retract what I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: artist grew whiter and whiter. At last one day they found him dead before
his picture, and they took him up to bury him. The other men looked about
in all the pots and crucibles, but they found nothing they had not.
And when they undressed him to put his grave-clothes on him, they found
above his left breast the mark of a wound--it was an old, old wound, that
must have been there all his life, for the edges were old and hardened; but
Death, who seals all things, had drawn the edges together, and closed it
up.
And they buried him. And still the people went about saying, "Where did he
find his colour from?"
And it came to pass that after a while the artist was forgotten--but the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The purpose and the consequent estate
Of one short shuddering step to the Unseen.
No, I have not your backward faith to shrink
Lone-faring from the doorway of God's home
To find Him in the names of buried men;
Nor your ingenious recreance to think
We cherish, in the life that is to come,
The scattered features of dead friends again.
II
Never until our souls are strong enough
To plunge into the crater of the Scheme --
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