| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: but if you call to mind exactly the present line of the path. . . .
The only way of proving it, however, will be to turn to our maps.
I shall see you at the Abbey to-morrow morning I hope, and then we
will look them over, and you shall give me your opinion."
Mr. Woodhouse was rather agitated by such harsh reflections on
his friend Perry, to whom he had, in fact, though unconsciously,
been attributing many of his own feelings and expressions;--
but the soothing attentions of his daughters gradually removed
the present evil, and the immediate alertness of one brother,
and better recollections of the other, prevented any renewal of it.
CHAPTER XIII
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: on each other. Whatever the physical conditions of the animal
brain may be which connect themselves with simple (unreflected
and unreflecting) consciousness, it is evident that
these conditions--in animals and primitive man--lasted
for an enormous period, before the distinct consciousness
of the individual and separate SELF arose. This second
order of consciousness seems to have germinated at
or about the same period as the discovery of the use
of Tools (tools of stone, copper, bronze, &c.), the adoption
of picture-writing and the use of reflective words (like "I"
and "Thou"); and it led on to the appreciation of gold and
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: even the grown folk, besides being very unhandy on their feet, were
often sick with ulcers.
About the time when Jack was ten years old, many strangers began to
journey through that country. These he beheld going lightly by on
the long roads, and the thing amazed him. "I wonder how it comes,"
he asked, "that all these strangers are so quick afoot, and we must
drag about our fetter?"
"My dear boy," said his uncle, the catechist, "do not complain
about your fetter, for it is the only thing that makes life worth
living. None are happy, none are good, none are respectable, that
are not gyved like us. And I must tell you, besides, it is very
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