| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: one's ideal of a wife. It is true that the upper classes of
impersonal France practise this method of marital selection, their
conseils de famille furnishing in some sort a parallel. But, as is
well known, matrimony among these same upper classes is largely form
devoid of substance. It begins impressively with a dual ceremony,
the civil contract, which amounts to a contract of civility between
the parties, and a religious rite to render the same perpetual,
and there it is too apt to end.
So much for the immediate influence on the man; the eventual effect
on the race remains to be considered. Now, if the first result be
anything, the second must in the end be everything. For however
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: travers les voiles de mousseline, je vous regarderai, Narraboth, je
vous sourirai, peut-etre. Regardez-moi, Narraboth. Regardez-moi.
Ah! vous savez bien que vous allez faire ce que je vous demande.
Vous le savez bien, n'est-ce pas? . . . Moi, je sais bien.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN [faisant un signe au troisieme soldat] Faites sortir
le prophete . . . La princesse Salome veut le voir.
SALOME. Ah!
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Oh! comme la lune a l'air etrange! On dirait
la main d'une morte qui cherche e se couvrir avec un linceul.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Elle a l'air tres etrange. On dirait une petite
princesse qui a des yeux d'ambre. A travers les nuages de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: other, those of each line taking fast hold of each other's
hands. The boys on one side then sang:
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And hurried to the town
And children met him with a horse
For the gates were broken down.
Then one from the other side ran with all his force,
throwing himself upon the hands of the boys who had
sung, the object being to "break through," in which case
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