| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: I have nothing to say, excepting this, that if the evil is so much
greater than I have described, then let your efforts be proportioned to
your estimate, not to mine. The great point with each of us is, not
how many of the wretched exist to-day, but how few shall there exist in
the years that are to come.
The dark and dismal jungle of pauperism, vice, and despair is the
inheritance to which we have succeeded from the generations and
centuries past, during which wars, insurrections, and internal troubles
left our forefathers small leisure to attend to the well-being of the
sunken tenth. Now that we have happened upon more fortunate times,
let us recognise that we are our brother's keepers, and set to work,
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: these same marvels tend to promote the object of the wine-cup.[2]
[1] Cf. "Mem." IV. vii. 7. Socrates' criticism of Anaxagoras' theory
with regard to the sun.
[2] Lit. "work to the same end as wine."
But now, supposing your young people yonder were to tread a measure to
the flute, some pantomime in dance, like those which the Graces and
the Hours with the Nymphs are made to tread in pictures,[3] I think
they would spend a far more happy time themselves, and our banquet
would at once assume a grace and charm unlooked for.
[3] Cf. Plat. "Laws," vii. 815 C; Hor. "Carm." i. 4. 6:
iunctaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: de Wardes."
"Oh, my God, my God!" murmured Kitty, "he has not even
waited for the hour he himself named!"
"Well," said Milady, in a trembling voice, "why do you not
enter? Count, Count," added she, "you know that I wait for
you."
At this appeal D'Artagnan drew Kitty quietly away, and
slipped into the chamber.
If rage or sorrow ever torture the heart, it is when a lover
receives under a name which is not his own protestations of
love addressed to his happy rival. D'Artagnan was in a
The Three Musketeers |
