| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: question of Good Works; in which is practised immeasurably more
trickery and deception than in anything else, and in which the
simpleminded man is so easily misled that our Lord Christ has
commanded us to watch carefully for the sheep's clothings under
which the wolves hide themselves.
Neither silver, gold, precious stones, nor any rare thing has
such manifold alloys and flaws as have good works, which ought
to have a single simple goodness, and without it are mere color,
show and deceit.
And although I know and daily hear many people, who think
slightingly of my poverty, and say that I write only little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: his guests; they would be on their way before bedtime.
"But there is no ship sailing so soon," he said. "They will
have to have housing till a ship sails."
Now this country has a shortage of houses and a surplus of
ships. There aren't enough roofs to house the honest people, and
there are hundreds of ships lying idle. Let the honest people
have the houses, and the anarchists have the ships. I called up
the Shipping Board, borrowed a ship, put the Red criminals aboard
and they went sailing, sailing, over the bounding main, and many
a stormy wind shall blow "ere Jack come home again."
On the other hand I discovered a family that had just come to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: down a bird, and who could in a day raise a wall which would shelter the
group; and the man so powerful that he could surely strike an enemy or wild
beast dead with his club, would at once be objects of social regard and
attain individual eminence, and perhaps dominance. It would not be the
skilled dancer, who in one night in a civilised state earns her hundreds,
nor yet the fragile clinging beauty, but the girl of the broad back and the
strong limb, who could collect wood and carry water, who would be the much
considered and much sought after female in such a community. Even in the
animal world, there is the same inversion in values, according as the
external conditions vary. The lion, while ruling over every other creature
in his primitive wilds, by right of his untamable ferocity, size, and
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