| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: often been horribly shaken by earthquakes. Now once, when the
volcano in St. Vincent began to pour out a vast stream of melted
lava, a noise like thunder was heard underground, over thousands
of square miles beyond those mountains, in the plains of Calabozo,
and on the banks of the Apure, more than 600 miles away from the
volcano,--a plain sign that there was something underground which
joined them together, perhaps a long crack in the earth. Look for
yourselves at the places, and you will see that (as Humboldt says)
it is as strange as if an eruption of Mount Vesuvius was heard in
the north of France.
So it seems as if these lines of volcanos stood along cracks in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: she excited, was something larger, something that had little to do
with any quickened pulsation of his own vanity. It was responsive
admiration of the life she embodied, the young purity and richness
of which appeared to imply that real success was to resemble THAT,
to live, to bloom, to present the perfection of a fine type, not to
have hammered out headachy fancies with a bent back at an ink-
stained table. While her grey eyes rested on him - there was a
wideish space between these, and the division of her rich-coloured
hair, so thick that it ventured to be smooth, made a free arch
above them - he was almost ashamed of that exercise of the pen
which it was her present inclination to commend. He was conscious
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: putting God to the test), it is therefore also not advisable or
tolerable for one to call upon the saints for intercession or to
teach others to do so. In fact, it is to be condemned and people
taught to avoid it. Therefore, I also will not advise it and
burden my conscience with the iniquities of others. It was
difficult for me to stop from worshipping the saints as I was so
steeped in it to have nearly drowned. But the light of the gospel
is now shining so brightly that from now on no one has an excuse
for remaining in the darkness. We all very well know what we are
to do.
This is itself a very risky and blasphemous way to worship for
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