| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: attain that aim is, to be good and to do good; and which contains
among other commandments this one--"Thou shaft not kill." Its
wealth was enormous. It possessed so much political power, that
it would have been able to command elections, to compel ministers,
to encourage the weak hearts of willing but fearful clergymen by
fair hopes of deaneries and bishoprics. Its members were no
clique of unpractical fanatics--no men less. Though it might
number among them a few martinet ex-post-captains, and noblemen of
questionable sanity, capable of no more practical study than that
of unfulfilled prophecy, the vast majority of them were
landowners, merchants, bankers, commercial men of all ranks, full
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: sounded abroad, now high, now low, now with a plaintive cadence
that caught the ear like the burthen of a popular song, were always
moderate and tunable, and seemed to fall in with the spirit of
still, rustic places, like the noise of a waterfall or the babble
of a rookery in spring. I could have asked the bell-ringer for his
blessing, good, sedate old man, who swung the rope so gently to the
time of his meditations. I could have blessed the priest or the
heritors, or whoever may be concerned with such affairs in France,
who had left these sweet old bells to gladden the afternoon, and
not held meetings, and made collections, and had their names
repeatedly printed in the local paper, to rig up a peal of brand-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SALOME. Qui est-ce, le fils de l'Homme? Est-il aussi beau que toi,
Iokanaan?
IOKANAAN. Arriere! Arriere! J'entends dans le palais le battement
des ailes de l'ange de la mort.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Princesse, je vous supplie de rentrer!
IOKANAAN. Ange du Seigneur Dieu, que fais-tu ici avec ton glaive?
Qui cherches-tu dans cet immonde palais? . . . Le jour de celui qui
mourra en robe d'argent n'est pas venu
SALOME. Iokanaan.
IOKANAAN. Qui parle?
SALOME. Iokanaan! Je suis amoureuse de ton corps. Ton corps est
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