| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: sentence of our Lord shall be due for us; verily, we shall surely
taste thereof; we did seduce you-verily, we were erring too!'
therefore, verily, on that day they shall share the torment: thus it
is that we will do with the sinners.
Verily, when it is said to them, 'There is no god but God,' they get
too big with pride, and say, What! shall we leave our gods for an
infatuated poet?' Nay, he came with the truth, and verified the
apostles; verily, ye are going to taste of grievous woe, nor shall
ye be rewarded save for that which ye have done!
Except God's sincere servants, these shall have a stated provision
of fruits, and they shall be honoured in the gardens of pleasure, upon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the natives from ourselves. Indigenous punishments were short and
sharp. Death, deportation by the primitive method of setting the
criminal to sea in a canoe, fines, and in Samoa itself the penalty
of publicly biting a hot, ill-smelling root, comparable to a rough
forfeit in a children's game - these are approved. The offender is
killed, or punished and forgiven. We, on the other hand, harbour
malice for a period of years: continuous shame attaches to the
criminal; even when he is doing his best - even when he is
submitting to the worst form of torture, regular work - he is to
stand aside from life and from his family in dreadful isolation.
These ideas most Polynesians have accepted in appearance, as they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: ourselves. In spite of this Defect (or rather by reason of it)
there is something very noble and majestic in the figures of the
Miss Lesleys, and something agreably lively in the appearance of
their pretty little Mother-in-law. But tho' one may be majestic
and the other lively, yet the faces of neither possess that
Bewitching sweetness of my Eloisas, which her present languor is
so far from diminushing. What would my Husband and Brother say
of us, if they knew all the fine things I have been saying to you
in this letter. It is very hard that a pretty woman is never to
be told she is so by any one of her own sex without that person's
being suspected to be either her determined Enemy, or her
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