| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: object of study to me; the most elaborate ornaments, acorn tops,
or what not, soon wearied and disgusted me. Bring your sills up
to the very edge of the swamp, then (though it may not be the
best place for a dry cellar), so that there be no access on that
side to citizens. Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at
most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were proposed to me
to dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that
ever human art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should
certainly decide for the swamp. How vain, then, have been all
your labors, citizens, for me!
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: KING HENRY.
Where did you dwell when I was King of England?
2 KEEPER.
Here in this country, where we now remain.
KING HENRY.
I was anointed king at nine months old,
My father and my grandfather were kings,
And you were sworn true subjects unto me;
And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?
1 KEEPER.
No;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: personnellement a la popularite et au succes des cultes
qui se celebraient en l'honneur de Serapis et d'Isis, des
divinites syriennes et de Mithra."[2]
[1] See Cumont, Religions Orientales dans le Paganisme Romain
(Paris, 1906), p. 253.
[2] Cultes paiens dans l'Empire Romain (2 vols., 1911), vol. ii,
p. 263.
It was also probable that this new Religion would show
(as indicated in the last chapter) a reaction against mere
sex-indulgence; and, as regards its standard of Morality
generally, that, among so many conflicting peoples with
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
