| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: holophrase.
[3] Themis, p. 471.
All estimates of the Time involved in these evolutions of
early man are notoriously most divergent and most difficult
to be sure of; but if we take 500,000 years ago for
the first appearance of veritable Man (homo primigenius),[2]
and (following Professor W. J. Sollas)[3] 30,000 or 40,000 years
ago for the first tool-using men (homo sapiens) of the
Chellean Age (palaeolithic), 15,000 for the rock-paintings
and inscriptions of the Aurignacian and Magdalenian
peoples, and 5,000 years ago for the first actual historical
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Time Was Money had to sustain life by fishing from the end of a
wharf.
The Moral Sentiment
A PUGILIST met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was
carrying a hat-box. "What have you in the hat-box, my friend?"
inquired the Pugilist.
"A new frown," was the answer. "I am bringing it from the frownery
- the one over there with the gilded steeple."
"And what are you going to do with the nice new frown?" the
Pugilist asked.
"Put down pugilism - if I have to wear it night and day," said the
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: shall be theirs; or, in the day of need, one and all to the last man,
they will be ready to aid the fatherland with all their strength.
Necessity, moreover, is laid upon them to study a good habit of the
body, coming as they do to blows with their fists for very strife's
sake whenever they meet. Albeit, any one present has a right to
separate the combatants, and, if obedience is not shown to the
peacemaker, the Pastor of youth[4] hales the delinquent before the
ephors, and the ephors inflict heavy damages, since they will have it
plainly understood that rage must never override obedience to law.
[4] Lit. "the Paidonomos."
With regard to those who have already passed[5] the vigour of early
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