| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: follow him. She strove to command her voice that she might recall him;
but at that same moment Trenchard, hearing his returning hoofs, thrust
out into the road with Vallancey following at his heels. The old
player's harsh voice reached her where she stood, and it was querulous
with impatience.
"What a plague do you mean, dallying here at such a time, Anthony?" he
cried, to which Vallancey added: "In God's name, let us push on.
At that she checked her impulse - it may even be that she mistrusted it.
She paused, lingering undecided for an instant; then, turning her horse
once more, she ambled up the slope to rejoin Diana.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: came often. There was no body of troops, nor armor,
no shields, no crossbows, no swords. They had knives,
rudely made of some hard stone, but it seemed that they
were made for hunting and felling and dividing. No clothing
hid from us any frame. The cacique had about his middle
a girdle of wrought cotton with worked ends and some
of the women wore as slight a dress, but that was all. They
were formed well, all of them, lithe and slender, not lacking
either in sinew and muscle, but it was sinew and muscle of
the free, graceful, wild world, not brawn of bowman and
pikeman and swordman and knight with his heavy lance.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: There is a third alternative theory (3)--a combination
of (1) and (2)--namely, that if one accepts (2) and the
idea that at any given stage of human development there
is a PREDISPOSITION to certain symbols and rites belonging to
that stage, then it is much more easy to accept theory (1)
as an important factor in the spread of such symbols
and rites; for clearly, then, the smallest germ of a custom
or practice, transported from one country or people
to another at the right time, would be sufficient to wake
the development or growth in question and stimulate it into
activity. It will be seen, therefore, that the important point
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