| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: [To the PEDANT] Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of;
I pray you stand good father to me now;
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
PEDANT.
Soft, son!
Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself:
And,--for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: with Democracy in America.
De Tocqueville was scarcely thirty years old when he began
his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold effort for
one who had no special training in government, or in the study of
political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in
establishing the military foundation of these liberties, and of
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, all of whom were
young men, in building upon the Independence of the United States
that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever
devised for a free people.
He found that the American people, through their chosen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: some commentators on the Christian Scriptures, sought to give an
allegorical meaning to what they also believed to be an historical fact.
It was as if some one in our own day were to convert the poems of Homer
into an allegory of the Christian religion, at the same time maintaining
them to be an exact and veritable history. In the Middle Ages the legend
seems to have been half-forgotten until revived by the discovery of
America. It helped to form the Utopia of Sir Thomas More and the New
Atlantis of Bacon, although probably neither of those great men were at all
imposed upon by the fiction. It was most prolific in the seventeenth or in
the early part of the eighteenth century, when the human mind, seeking for
Utopias or inventing them, was glad to escape out of the dulness of the
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