| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: ordained to those who have been given the Book before you, and to
you too that ye fear God;- but if ye misbelieve, verily, God's is what
is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and God is rich and to
be praised!
God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! and God
sufficeth for a guardian!
If He will He can make ye pass away, O men! and can bring others;-
God is able to do all that.
He who wishes for a reward in this world,- with God is the reward of
this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees.
O ye who believe! be ye steadfast in justice, witnessing before
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: evidence are stricter and the mind has become more sensitive to criticism.
It has faded into the distance by a natural process as it was removed
further and further from the historical fact on which it has been supposed
to rest. Arguments derived from material things such as the seed and the
ear of corn or transitions in the life of animals from one state of being
to another (the chrysalis and the butterfly) are not 'in pari materia' with
arguments from the visible to the invisible, and are therefore felt to be
no longer applicable. The evidence to the historical fact seems to be
weaker than was once supposed: it is not consistent with itself, and is
based upon documents which are of unknown origin. The immortality of man
must be proved by other arguments than these if it is again to become a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: middle way between submissiveness and violence]_ _I_ can tell you
where Hypatia is. I can tell you where Joey is. And I say it's a
scandal and an infamy. If people only knew what goes on in this
so-called respectable house it would be put a stop to. These are the
morals of our pious capitalist class! This is your rotten
bourgeoisie! This!--
MRS TARLETON. Dont you dare use such language in company. I wont
allow it.
TARLETON. All right, Chickabiddy: it's not bad language: it's only
Socialism.
MRS TARLETON. Well, I wont have any Socialism in my house.
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