| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: moment, and there they were perched on the shafts of the phaeton, lighting, as
it seemed, on the first thing they came to, while the father and mother birds
were flying about in frantic anxiety to see them in such a perilous situation.
How could those tiny little untrained claws keep their hold on that big round,
slippery shaft, and if the carriage started down they would surely go under
the wheels or under the feet of that merciless little grey mare. But the
little fledglings were in better hands than they knew, for, with the
exceptions of Betsy, Doctor, and Black-and-white, every living thing at
Oakdene was kind to every other living thing.
"Whoa, girlie; whoa, girlie," had been Patrick's quieting words to Lizzie, and
then when Tattine came hurrying that way he had motioned her to come quietly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: monkey skin embroidered with rosettes of beads, and his spear was
very long, bright and keen. He was tall and finely built carried
himself with a free, lithe swing. As the quintette came to halt,
the villagers fell silent and our shauri began.
We drew up and dismounted. We all expectorated as gentlemen.
"These," said he proudly, "are my beebees."
We replied that they seemed like excellent beebees and politely
inquired the price of wives thereabout, and also the market for
totos. He gave us to understand that such superior wives as these
brought three cows and twenty sheep apiece, but that you could
get a pretty good toto for half a rupee.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: it is again the distant hope that must inspire
us, not the immediate breathless looking for the
deliverance.[56] But we have seen what might have been,
and we know that great possibilities do arise in times
of crisis. In some such sense as this, it may well
be true that the Socialist revolution is the road to
universal peace, and that when it has been traversed
all the other conditions for the cessation of
wars will grow of themselves out of the changed
mental and moral atmosphere.
[56] This was written in March, 1918, almost the darkest
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