| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: April, 1796, to April, 1797, he forced the last enemies of France
to demand peace.
3. Psychological and Military Factors which determined the
Success of the Revolutionary Armies.
To realise the causes of the success of the revolutionary armies
we must remember the prodigious enthusiasm, endurance, and
abnegation of these ragged and often barefoot troops. Thoroughly
steeped in revolutionary principles, they felt that they were the
apostles of a new religion, which was destined to regenerate the
world.
The history of the armies of the Revolution recalls that of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: the country their best and wisest were ready to give help.
If the difficulty was unusually profound, the applicant was
directed to someone more specially experienced in that line of thought.
Here was a religion which gave to the searching mind a rational
basis in life, the concept of an immense Loving Power working
steadily out through them, toward good. It gave to the "soul"
that sense of contact with the inmost force, of perception of the
uttermost purpose, which we always crave. It gave to the "heart"
the blessed feeling of being loved, loved and UNDERSTOOD. It gave
clear, simple, rational directions as to how we should live--and why.
And for ritual it gave first those triumphant group demonstrations,
Herland |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: ascertain the extent of the danger before attacking. The strength
of the snareling will decide the plan of campaign. Let us first
suppose the usual case, that of an average head of game, a Moth or
Fly of some sort. Facing her prisoner, the Spider contracts her
abdomen slightly and touches the insect for a moment with the end
of her spinnerets; then, with her front tarsi, she sets her victim
spinning. The Squirrel, in the moving cylinder of his cage, does
not display a more graceful or nimbler dexterity. A cross-bar of
the sticky spiral serves as an axis for the tiny machine, which
turns, turns swiftly, like a spit. It is a treat to the eyes to
see it revolve.
The Life of the Spider |
