| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: question direct to his companion.
"Well," answered Alcide, laughing, "my cousin is a
very discreet person, who does not like to be talked about,
and who would be in despair if she troubled the sleep of
which you are in need."
"I don't wish to sleep," replied the Englishman. "What
will your cousin think of the affairs of Russia?"
"That they seem for the time in a bad way. But, bah!
the Muscovite government is powerful; it cannot be really
uneasy at an invasion of barbarians."
"Too much ambition has lost the greatest empires," an-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: To whom the woodman uttered wonderingly
'Lord, thou couldst lay the Devil of these woods
If arm of flesh could lay him.' Balin cried
'Him, or the viler devil who plays his part,
To lay that devil would lay the Devil in me.'
'Nay' said the churl, 'our devil is a truth,
I saw the flash of him but yestereven.
And some DO say that our Sir Garlon too
Hath learned black magic, and to ride unseen.
Look to the cave.' But Balin answered him
'Old fabler, these be fancies of the churl,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: with satisfaction at French reverses, becomes its friend.
In literature, art, and philosophy the successive evolutions of
opinion are more rapid still. Romanticism, naturalism,
mysticism, &c., spring up and die out in turn. The artist and
the writer applauded yesterday are treated on the morrow with
profound contempt.
When, however, we analyse all these changes in appearance so far
reaching, what do we find? All those that are in opposition with
the general beliefs and sentiments of the race are of transient
duration, and the diverted stream soon resumes its course. The
opinions which are not linked to any general belief or sentiment
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