| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the present day. As we pointed out in the foregoing essay, while
all this voluminous literature throws but an uncertain light upon
the life and teachings of the founder of Christianity, it
nevertheless furnishes nearly all the data which we could desire
for knowing what the early Christians thought of the master of
their faith. Having given a brief account of the historic career
of Jesus, so far as it can now be determined, we propose here to
sketch the rise and progress of Christologic doctrine, in its
most striking features, during the first three centuries.
Beginning with the apostolic view of the human Messiah sent to
deliver Judaism from its spiritual torpor, and prepare it for the
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: about horses, sport, and things in general, considered from a point
of view which was not strenuously correct. He had not been out
hunting once this season, had had no horse of his own to ride,
and had gone from place to place chiefly with Mr. Garth in his gig,
or on the sober cob which Mr. Garth could lend him. It was a little
too bad, Fred began to think, that he should be kept in the traces
with more severity than if he had been a clergyman. "I will tell
you what, Mistress Mary--it will be rather harder work to learn
surveying and drawing plans than it would have been to write sermons,"
he had said, wishing her to appreciate what he went through for
her sake; "and as to Hercules and Theseus, they were nothing to me.
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