| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in the ways of culture and civilization."
"You are right, Perry," I said, "and while you are teaching
them to pray I'll be teaching them to fight, and between
us we'll make a race of men that will be an honor to us both."
Ghak had entered the apartment some time before we
concluded our conversation, and now he wanted to know
what we were so excited about. Perry thought we had best
not tell him too much, and so I only explained that I
had a plan for escape. When I had outlined it to him,
he seemed about as horror-struck as Perry had been;
but for a different reason. The Hairy One only considered
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: animal world, there is the same inversion in values, according as the
external conditions vary. The lion, while ruling over every other creature
in his primitive wilds, by right of his untamable ferocity, size, and
rapacity, is yet bound to become a prey to destruction and extermination
when he comes into contact with the new condition brought by man; while the
wild dog, so immeasurably his inferior in size and ferocity, is tamed,
survives and multiplies, exactly because he has been driven by his smaller
structure and lesser physical force to develop those social instincts and
those forms of intelligence which make him amenable to the new condition of
life and valuable in them. The same inversion in the value of qualities
may be traced in the history of human species. The Jews, whose history has
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: bivouacked in the corner of the same field with them. Carrying
an iron pot, we cooked and ate our supper under a
cloudless sky, and knew no trouble. My companions were
Mariano Gonzales, who had formerly accompanied me in
Chile, and an "arriero," with his ten mules and a "madrina."
The madrina (or godmother) is a most important personage:
she is an old steady mare, with a little bell round her neck;
and wherever she goes, the mules, like good children, follow
her. The affection of these animals for their madrinas saves
infinite trouble. If several large troops are turned into one
field to graze, in the morning the muleteers have only to lead
The Voyage of the Beagle |
