| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: But then Patty came in, and said it was you. `Oh!' said I,
`it is Miss Woodhouse: I am sure you will like to see her.'--
`I can see nobody,' said she; and up she got, and would go away;
and that was what made us keep you waiting--and extremely sorry
and ashamed we were. `If you must go, my dear,' said I, `you must,
and I will say you are laid down upon the bed.'"
Emma was most sincerely interested. Her heart had been long growing
kinder towards Jane; and this picture of her present sufferings acted
as a cure of every former ungenerous suspicion, and left her nothing
but pity; and the remembrance of the less just and less gentle
sensations of the past, obliged her to admit that Jane might very
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 41: 3 (41:4) The LORD support him upon the bed of illness; mayest Thou turn all his lying down in his sickness.
Psalms 41: 4 (41:5) As for me, I said: 'O LORD, be gracious unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee.'
Psalms 41: 5 (41:6) Mine enemies speak evil of me: 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'
Psalms 41: 6 (41:7) And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he speaketh of it.
Psalms 41: 7 (41:8) All that hate me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my hurt:
Psalms 41: 8 (41:9) 'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.'
Psalms 41: 9 (41:10) Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms 41: 10 (41:11) But Thou, O LORD, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms 41: 11 (41:12) By this I know that Thou delightest in me, that mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms 41: 12 (41:13) And as for me, Thou upholdest me because of mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.
Psalms 41: 13 (41:14) Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. BOOK II
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: got at; and if we find that Dr. Bastian has produced no evidence
save such as may equally well receive a different interpretation
from that which he has given it, we rightly feel that a strong
presumption has been raised against his hypothesis. It is a case
in which we are entitled to expect to find the favouring facts if
there are any, and so long as we do not find such, we are
justified in doubting their existence. So when our authors
propound the hypothesis of an unseen universe consisting of
phenomena which occur in the interstellar ether, or even in some
primordial fluid with which the ether has physical relations, we
are entitled to demand their proofs. It is not enough to tell us
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
