| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: the concerns of money-making. As freemen, he enjoined upon them to
regard as their concern exclusively those activities upon which the
foundations of civic liberty are based.
And indeed, one may well ask, for what reason should wealth be
regarded as a matter for serious pursuit[1] in a community where,
partly by a system of equal contributions to the necessaries of life,
and partly by the maintenance of a common standard of living, the
lawgiver placed so effectual a check upon the desire of riches for the
sake of luxury? What inducement, for instance, would there be to make
money, even for the sake of wearing apparel, in a state where personal
adornment is held to lie not in the costliness of the clothes they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: was light-hearted and high-spirited, as though at last he had found a way out
of the frightful difficulty. The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a
peaceful smile upon his careworn face--asphyxiation. Through the connivance of
the police and the authorities, it was given out to the world as heart
disease. We deemed it wise to withhold the truth; but little good has it done
us, little good has anything done us.
Barely had I left that chamber of death, when--but too late--the following
extraordinary letter was received:
OFFICE OF THE M. of M., February 17, 1900.
MR. EBEN HALE, Money Baron:
Dear Sir,--You will pardon our intrusion, we hope, so closely upon the sad
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: iron.
Bridge spoke to them once. "What are you going to do
with us?" he asked.
"We're goin' to hang you higher 'n' Haman, you
damned kidnappers an' murderers," yelled a man in the
crowd.
"Why don't you give us a chance?" asked Bridge in an
even tone, unaltered by fear or excitement. "You've
nothing on us. As a matter of fact we are both inno-
cent--"
"Oh, shut your damned mouth," interrupted another
The Oakdale Affair |
