| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: with a special intelligence of social questions. All our
political economists are highly educated, being for the most part
professors or academicians, yet is there a single general
question--protection, bimetallism, &c.--on which they have
succeeded in agreeing? The explanation is that their science is
only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance. With
regard to social problems, owing to the number of unknown
quantities they offer, men are substantially, equally ignorant.
In consequence, were the electorate solely composed of persons
stuffed with sciences their votes would be no better than those
emitted at present. They would be guided in the main by their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: who writest thy ecclesiastical censures for no other purpose than
to be paid for revoking them."
v. 130. To him.] The coin of Florence was stamped with the
impression of John the Baptist.
CANTO XIX
v. 38. Who turn'd his compass.] Compare Proverbs, c. viii. 27.
And Milton, P. L. b. vii 224.
v. 42. The Word] "The divine nature still remained
incomprehensible. Of this Lucifer was a proof; for had he
thoroughly comprehended it, he would not have fallen."
v. 108. The Ethiop.] Matt. c. xii. 41.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: a naail.
Noaks wur 'ang'd for it oop at 'soize--but git ma
my yaale.
*Anenomes.
X.
Dubbut looak at the waaste: theer warn't not fead
for a cow:
Nowt at all but bracken an' fuzz, an' looak at it
now--
Warn't worth nowt a haacre, an' now theer's lots o'
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