| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: chief justice, to doubt his confession. Later on in his
examinations, he was asked if he knew where the house had stood
which he set on fire, to which he replied in the affirmative, and
on being taken into the city, pointed out the spot correctly.
In the eyes of many this was regarded as proof of his guilt;
though others stated that, having lived in the city, he must
necessarily become acquainted with the position of the baker's
shop. Opinion was therefore somewhat divided regarding him. The
chief justice told the king "that all his discourse was so
disjointed that he did not believe him guilty." Yet having
voluntarily accused himself of a monstrous deed, and being
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: doubtless, he will again behold the morn's red dawn in the free heavens.
Carpenter. What ails thee, maiden?
Clara. Can ye misunderstand me? I speak of the Count! I speak of
Egmont.
Jetter. Speak not the name! 'tis deadly.
Clara. Not speak his name? How? Not Egmont's name? Is it not on every
tongue? Where stands it not inscribed? Often have I read it emblazoned
with all its letters among these stars. Not utter it? What mean ye? Friends!
good, kind neighbours, ye are dreaming; collect yourselves. Gaze not upon
me with those fixed and anxious looks! Cast not such timid glances on
every side! I but give utterance to the wish of all. Is not my voice the voice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: found that, as for logic, its syllogisms and the majority of its other
precepts are of avail- rather in the communication of what we already
know, or even as the art of Lully, in speaking without judgment of things
of which we are ignorant, than in the investigation of the unknown; and
although this science contains indeed a number of correct and very
excellent precepts, there are, nevertheless, so many others, and these
either injurious or superfluous, mingled with the former, that it is
almost quite as difficult to effect a severance of the true from the false
as it is to extract a Diana or a Minerva from a rough block of marble.
Then as to the analysis of the ancients and the algebra of the moderns,
besides that they embrace only matters highly abstract, and, to
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