| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: the writer proposed to remove for that purpose. Subjoined were
several grotesque drawings of engines designed to remove those
massive blocks, and in a corner of the page was a note,--"I would
have drawn these more accurately, but was not allowed a KNIFE to
mend my pen."
The next was entitled, "A modest proposal for the spreading of
Christianity in foreign parts, whereby it is hoped its
entertainment will become general all over the world."--This modest
proposal was, to convert the Turkish ambassadors (who had been in
London a few years before), by offering them their choice of being
strangled on the spot, or becoming Christians. Of course the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: hypothesis when tested by the letters of the alphabet is found to break
down. The first syllable of Socrates' name is SO. But what is SO? Two
letters, S and O, a sibilant and a vowel, of which no further explanation
can be given. And how can any one be ignorant of either of them, and yet
know both of them? There is, however, another alternative:--We may suppose
that the syllable has a separate form or idea distinct from the letters or
parts. The all of the parts may not be the whole. Theaetetus is very much
inclined to adopt this suggestion, but when interrogated by Socrates he is
unable to draw any distinction between the whole and all the parts. And if
the syllables have no parts, then they are those original elements of which
there is no explanation. But how can the syllable be known if the letter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: My mission is to bring to the poor man's boy the ample education
that the rich man gives his son. Equal education will make men
equal in the gaining of wealth. Education is Democracy.
"A French soldier lay dying on the battle-field, and a comrade
kneeling by him asked what last word he wished carried to his
wife and children. And the dying man said with his last breath:
'Tell them that I gave my body to the earth, I gave my heart to
France and I gave my soul to God.'
"And so I say to you in the spirit of the French soldier that
this, my body, I will give at last back to the iron earth, in
whose deep mines and smoking metal shops my muscles took their
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