| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: afterwards by his young wife who heeded literally the instruction
of one of their female teachers in her duty to her husband to
Share his joy as well as sorrow, riches, poverty or guilt,
And in death be buried with him, as in life you shared his guilt.
That her nearest relatives did not believe, as has often been
suggested, that there was any "foul play" in regard to her death,
is evident from the fact that her father continued to hold office
until the time of the Boxer uprising, at which time he followed
the fleeing court as far as Paotingfu, where having heard that
the capital was in the hands of the hated foreigners, he sent
word back to his family that he would neither eat the foreigners'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: complication, this servitude. I want to do some--some work. I want
to get my mind clear and my hands clear. I want to study government
and the big business of the world."
"And she's in the way?"
He assented.
"You men!" said Lady Marayne after a little pause. "What queer
beasts you are! Here is a woman who is kind to you. She's fond of
you. I could tell she's fond of you directly I heard her. And you
amuse yourself with her. And then it's Gobble, Gobble, Gobble,
Great Work, Hands Clear, Big Business of the World. Why couldn't
you think of that before, Poff? Why did you begin with her Merkle. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: revealed in Scripture and in nature. No philosophy has supplied a sanction
equal in authority to this, or a motive equal in strength to the belief in
another life. Yet about these too we must ask What will of God? how
revealed to us, and by what proofs? Religion, like happiness, is a word
which has great influence apart from any consideration of its content: it
may be for great good or for great evil. But true religion is the
synthesis of religion and morality, beginning with divine perfection in
which all human perfection is embodied. It moves among ideas of holiness,
justice, love, wisdom, truth; these are to God, in whom they are
personified, what the Platonic ideas are to the idea of good. It is the
consciousness of the will of God that all men should be as he is. It lives
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