| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: slowly, but surely, win the race at last."
"But now think for yourself: and see what you would do to save
these people from being poisoned by bad water. Remember that the
plain question is this: The rain-water comes down from heaven as
water, and nothing but water. Rain-water is the only pure water,
after all. How would you save that for the poor people who have
none? There; run away and hunt rabbits on the moor: but look,
meanwhile, how you would save some of this beautiful and precious
water which is roaring away into the sea."
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"Well? What would you do? Make ponds, you say, like the old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: but express the fact, that within the old society, the elements
of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the
old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old
conditions of existence.
When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient
religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas
succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal
society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary
bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of
conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition
within the domain of knowledge.
The Communist Manifesto |
