| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: [Enter LORD CAVERSHAM, an old gentleman of seventy, wearing the
riband and star of the Garter. A fine Whig type. Rather like a
portrait by Lawrence.]
LORD CAVERSHAM. Good evening, Lady Chiltern! Has my good-for-
nothing young son been here?
LADY CHILTERN. [Smiling.] I don't think Lord Goring has arrived
yet.
MABEL CHILTERN. [Coming up to LORD CAVERSHAM.] Why do you call Lord
Goring good-for-nothing?
[MABEL CHILTERN is a perfect example of the English type of
prettiness, the apple-blossom type. She has all the fragrance and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: children, and hoarded talents of gold and silver, and of horses
well-bred, and cattle, and tilth;- that is the provision for the
life of this world; but God, with Him is the best resort.
Say, 'But shall we tell you of a better thing than this?' For
those who fear are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow;
they shall dwell therein for aye, and pure wives and grace from God;
the Lord looks on His servants, who say, 'Lord, we believe, pardon
Thou our sins and keep us from the torment of the fire,' the
patient, the truthful, the devout, and those who ask for pardon at the
dawn.
God bears witness that there is no god but He, and the angels, and
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: evolution. Then somewhere towards the end of palaeolithic
or commencement of neolithic times Self-consciousness dimly
beginning and, after some 10,000 years of slow germination
and pre-historic culture, culminating in the actual historic
period and the dawn of civilization 40 or 50 centuries ago,
and to-day (we hope), reaching the climax which precedes
or foretells its abatement and transformation.
[2] Though Dr. Arthur Keith, Ancient Types of Man (1911), pp. 93
and 102, puts the figure at more like a million.
[3] See Ancient Hunters (1915); also Hastings's Encycl. art.
"Ethnology"; and Havelock Ellis, "The Origin of War," in The
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
