| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: But that he saw the sturdy sprites obeyed.
XI
Legions of devils by thousands thither come,
Such as in sparsed air their biding make,
And thousands also which by Heavenly doom
Condemned lie in deep Avernus lake,
But slow they came, displeased all and some
Because those woods they should in keeping take,
Yet they obeyed and took the charge in hand,
And under every branch and leaf they stand.
XII
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: trashiness of fibre? Are there not hereabouts some points of
application for a renovated and revised ascetic discipline?
Many of you would recognize such dangers, but would point to
athletics, militarism, and individual and national enterprise and
adventure as the remedies. These contemporary ideals are quite
as remarkable for the energy with which they make for heroic
standards of life, as contemporary religion is remarkable for the
way in which it neglects them.[220] War and adventure assuredly
keep all who engage in them from treating themselves too
tenderly. They demand such incredible efforts, depth beyond
depth of exertion, both in degree and in duration, that the whole
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: perhaps one of you gentlemen--" Miss Nora looked from one to the
other of them with deep innocence.
"Sure, I'll go along and carry it. Just as Mac says, I'll be real
pleased to go," said Denver, hastily.
Mac felt he had been a trifle precipitate in his assumption that
Nora did not intend to go herself. Lee Ming had established a
laundry some half mile from the ranch, and the way thereto lay
through most picturesque shadow and moonlight. The foreman had
conscientious scruples against letting Denver escort her down
such a veritable lovers' lane of romantic scenery.
"I don't know as y'u ought to go out in the night air with that
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