| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
An' I spoke to God of our Contract, an' He says to my prayer:
"I never puts on My ministers no more than they can bear.
So back you go to the cattle-boats an' preach My Gospel there.
"For human life is chancy at any kind of trade,
But most of all, as well you know, when the steers are mad-afraid;
So you go back to the cattle-boats an' preach 'em as I've said.
"They must quit drinkin' an' swearin', they mustn't knife on a blow,
They must quit gamblin' their wages, and you must preach it so;
Verses 1889-1896 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: gods who have arranged this grand and beauteous universe? What other
tribe of animals save man can render service to the gods? How apt is
the spirit of man to take precautions against hunger and thirst, cold
and heat, to alleviate disease and foster strength! how suited to
labour with a view to learning! how capable of garnering in the
storehouse of his memory all that he has heard or seen or understood!
Is it not most evident to you that by the side of other animals men
live and move a race of gods--by nature excellent, in beauty of body
and of soul supreme? For, mark you, had a creature of man's wit been
encased in the body of an ox,[14] he would have been powerless to
carry out his wishes, just as the possession of hands divorced from
The Memorabilia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: than the passive resistance of a heavy oak door moving on rusty
hinges."
They stood now in an avenue overshadowed by such old trees as we
have described, and which had been bordered at one time by high
hedges of yew and holly. But these, having been untrimmed for
many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf-trees,
and now encroached, with their dark and melancholy boughs, upon
the road which they once had screened. The avenue itself was
grown up with grass, and, in one or two places, interrupted by
piles of withered brushwood, which had been lopped from the trees
cut down in the neighbouring park, and was here stacked for
Kenilworth |
