| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: And gathered all the Italian bands in one.
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He gathered them where lay the arms that late
Were good Rinaldo's; then with semblance stout
And furious words his fore-conceived hate
In bitter speeches thus he vomits out;
"Is not this people barbarous and ingrate,
In whom truth finds no place, faith takes no rout?
Whose thirst unquenched is of blood and gold,
Whom no yoke boweth, bridle none can hold.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: instinctive functions, and it is so even in the case of
philosophical thinking; one has here to learn anew, as one
learned anew about heredity and "innateness." As little as the
act of birth comes into consideration in the whole process and
procedure of heredity, just as little is "being-conscious"
OPPOSED to the instinctive in any decisive sense; the greater
part of the conscious thinking of a philosopher is secretly
influenced by his instincts, and forced into definite channels.
And behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement,
there are valuations, or to speak more plainly, physiological
demands, for the maintenance of a definite mode of life For
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "They know how to come by their cattle at a far cheaper rate,"
said the Major; "but let it be as your Excellency wills."
"Let Ranald MacEagh," said Montrose, "select one or two of his
followers, men whom he can trust, and who are capable of keeping
their own secret and ours; these, with their chief for scout-
master-general, shall serve for our guides. Let them be at my
tent to-morrow at daybreak, and see, if possible, that they
neither guess my purpose, nor hold any communication with each
other in private.--This old man, has he any children?"
"They have been killed or hanged," answered the Major, "to the
number of a round dozen, as I believe--but he hath left one
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