| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and
remain free at all.
Individualism, then, is what through Socialism we are to attain to.
As a natural result the State must give up all idea of government.
It must give it up because, as a wise man once said many centuries
before Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone;
there is no such thing as governing mankind. All modes of
government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody,
including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to
the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: of James's ill conditions; the petulance which made him kill the
Master of Mar's sparrow, in trying to wrest it out of his hand; the
carelessness with which--if the story told by Chytraeus, on the
authority of Buchanan's nephew, be true--James signed away his crown
to Buchanan for fifteen days, and only discovered his mistake by
seeing Bachanan act in open court the character of King of Scots.
Buchanan had at last made him a scholar; he may have fancied that he
had made him likewise a manful man: yet he may have dreaded that,
as James grew up, the old inclinations would return in stronger and
uglier shapes, and that flattery might be, as it was after all, the
cause of James's moral ruin. He at least will be no flatterer. He
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Vanderlip's friend, she would even meet the difference herself?
And he was to say nothing about it? She was kind to so look to
his interests. Friday night, did she say? Good! The dogs would
be on hand.
An hour later, Freda knew the elopement was to be pulled off on
Friday night; also, that Floyd Vanderlip had gone up-creek, and
her hands were tied. On Friday morning, Devereaux, the official
courier, bearing despatches from the Governor, arrived over the
ice. Besides the despatches, he brought news of Flossie. He had
passed her camp at Sixty Mile; humans and dogs were in good
condition; and she would doubtless be in on the morrow. Mrs.
|
