| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: THE CHAPTER OF HUD
(XI. Mecca.)
ALIF LAM RA. A book whose signs are confirmed and then detailed,
from the wise one, the aware: that ye worship not other than God,-
verily, I am to you from Him a warner and a herald of glad tidings;
and that ye seek pardon from your Lord, then turn again to Him! He
will cause you to enjoy a good provision to a named and appointed
time, and will give His grace to every one deserving grace; but if
ye turn your backs, I fear for you the torment of a great day.
Unto God is your return, and He is mighty over all.
Do they not, verily, fold up their breasts, that the' may hide
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: widely even in good men; benevolence and self-love torture one half of our
virtuous actions into the likeness of the other. The greatest happiness
principle, which includes both, has the advantage over all these in
comprehensiveness, but the advantage is purchased at the expense of
definiteness.
Again, there are the legal and political principles of morals--freedom,
equality, rights of persons; 'Every man to count for one and no man for
more than one,' 'Every man equal in the eye of the law and of the
legislator.' There is also the other sort of political morality, which if
not beginning with 'Might is right,' at any rate seeks to deduce our ideas
of justice from the necessities of the state and of society. According to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: herself sorrowfully: "How utterly empty their lives must be of
all spiritual beauty IF they are nothing more than they appear to
be."
She sat in our midst, and judged us, and few knew what was
passing behind that face "like an awakening soul," to use one of
her own epithets. Her eyes were like deep pools, and you seemed
to fall through them into depths below depths.
ARTHUR SYMONS.
FOLK SONGS
PALANQUIN BEARERS
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
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