| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: beauty, for it was lined throughout with an
exquisite metal that resembled translucent frosted
silver. The surface of this metal was highly
ornamented in raised designs representing men,
animals, flowers and trees, and from the metal
itself was radiated the soft light which flooded
the room. All the furniture was made of the same
glorious metal, and Scraps asked what it was.
"That's radium," answered the Chief. "We
Horners spend all our time digging radium from
the mines under this mountain, and we use it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: drink out of hot kettles, or to fall into the fire; all the little
children in alleys and courts, and tumble-down cottages, who die by
fever, and cholera, and measles, and scarlatina, and nasty
complaints which no one has any business to have, and which no one
will have some day, when folks have common sense; and all the
little children who have been killed by cruel masters and wicked
soldiers; they were all there, except, of course, the babes of
Bethlehem who were killed by wicked King Herod; for they were taken
straight to heaven long ago, as everybody knows, and we call them
the Holy Innocents.
But I wish Tom had given up all his naughty tricks, and left off
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: exist somewhere, of all the stars that make the universe, and
which, borne onward in a common movement, gravitate together
around this focus."
Much more, of an equally scientific character, follows; but in
fairness to the reader, who is already blaming us for wasting the
precious moments over such sorry trash, we may as well conclude
our sketch of this new line of speculation.
May, 1872.
III. THE JESUS OF HISTORY.[15]
[15] The Jesus of History. Anonymous. 8vo. pp. 426. London:
Williams & Norgate, 1869.
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