| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: for your consideration." He turned to the old banker.
"You will not refuse to mention the sum to me, will you,
my friend?"
M. Fromentin shrugged his shoulders. "It is ten
thousand pounds," he replied, almost curtly.
Thorpe was seemingly mollified. "Very well, then," he said.
"I will sell you 2,000 shares at ten pounds."
The others exchanged a wondering look.
"Monsieur," the banker stammered--"I see your meaning.
You will forgive me--it is very well meant indeed by
you--but it was not my proposition. The market-price
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: "immortality," if we live in the eternal, is not so much future
as already now and here, which we find so often expressed to-day
in certain philosophic circles, finds its support in a "hear,
hear!" or an "amen," which floats up from that mysteriously
deeper level.[279] We recognize the passwords to the mystical
region as we hear them, but we cannot use them ourselves; it
alone has the keeping of "the password primeval."[280]
[279] Compare the extracts from Dr. Bucke, quoted on pp. 398,
399.
[280] As serious an attempt as I know to mediate between the
mystical region and the discursive life is contained in an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the man of God, to tell us our way.
SA1 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a
Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
SA1 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.
SA1 9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
SA1 9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a
sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
King James Bible |
