| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: whole land until the ninth hour.
MAR 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?
MAR 15:35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said,
Behold, he calleth Elias.
MAR 15:36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it
on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether
Elias will come to take him down.
MAR 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
MAR 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: some time; and I was just about to leave when Mr. Ward made one last
suggestion.
"Have you not observed, Strock," said he, "that there is a sort of
fantastic resemblance between the general appearance of this boat and
this automobile?"
"There is something of the sort, Mr. Ward."
"Well, is it not possible that the two are one?"
Chapter 6
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After leaving Mr. Ward I returned to my home in Long Street. There I
had plenty of time to consider this strange case uninterrupted by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: this, which in all ages has been the strength and weakness of ethics and
politics, is deeply seated in human nature; (5) there is a sort of half-
truth in the notion that all civilized men are teachers of virtue; and more
than a half-truth (6) in ascribing to man, who in his outward conditions is
more helpless than the other animals, the power of self-improvement; (7)
the religious allegory should be noticed, in which the arts are said to be
given by Prometheus (who stole them), whereas justice and reverence and the
political virtues could only be imparted by Zeus; (8) in the latter part of
the Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing that 'pleasure is the only good,'
Protagoras deems it more in accordance with his character to maintain that
'some pleasures only are good;' and admits that 'he, above all other men,
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