| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: personality away somewhere in Heaven. The personal appearance of
the Christian God is described in The Revelation, and however much
that description may be explained away by commentators as
symbolical, it is certainly taken by most straightforward believers
as a statement of concrete reality. Now if we are going to insist
upon this primary meaning of person and individual, then certainly
God as he is now conceived is not a person and not an individual.
The true God will never promenade an Eden or a Heaven, nor sit upon
a throne.
But current Christianity, modern developments of Islam, much Indian
theological thought--that, for instance, which has found such
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: great while.
I had stayed here five weeks, and lived very comfortably indeed
(the secret anxiety of my mind excepted); but when I received
this letter I looked pleasantly again, an told my landlady that
I had received a letter from my spouse in Ireland, that I had
the good news of his being very well, but had the bad news
that his business would not permit him to come away so soon
as he expected, and so I was like to go back again without him.
My landlady complimented me upon the good news however,
that I had heard he was well. 'For I have observed, madam,'
says she, 'you hadn't been so pleasant as you used to be; you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: little boy came back - the little boy Mrs. Moreen had sent out of
the room to fetch her fan. He came back without the fan, only with
the casual observation that he couldn't find it. As he dropped
this cynical confession he looked straight and hard at the
candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand. This
personage reflected somewhat grimly that the thing he should have
to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to
his mother when he spoke to her - especially not to make her such
an improper answer as that.
When Mrs. Moreen bethought herself of this pretext for getting rid
of their companion Pemberton supposed it was precisely to approach
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