| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: is the cause of mankind.
There is, therefore, no reason to doubt that these men were honest,
when they said that they were combating, not in their own cause
merely, but in that of humanity; and that the Church was combating
in her own cause, and that of her power and privilege. The Church
replied that she, too, was combating for humanity; for its moral and
eternal well-being. But that is just what the philosophes denied.
They said (and it is but fair to take a statement which appears on
the face of all their writings; which is the one key-note on which
they ring perpetual changes), that the cause of the Church in France
was not that of humanity, but of inhumanity; not that of nature, but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: looked at Corpang he was impressed by his aspect of Gothic awfulness,
but the perplexed expression was still in his eyes.
"Do you spend all your time here, Corpang?"
"Occasionally I go above, but not often."
"What fastens you to this gloomy world?"
"The search for Thire."
"Then it's still a search?"
"Let us walk on."
As they resumed their journey across the dim, gradually rising plain,
the conversation became even more earnest in character than before.
"Although I was not born here," proceeded Corpang, "I've lived here
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: ashore and capture after battle by Jamaicans no longer
friendly, and of escape alone. But he would go again if
so be he might have with him Bartholomew Fiesco. They
went, with heavily paid Indians to row the staunchest canoe
we could find. This time the Adelantado with twenty kept
them company along the shore to end of the island, where
the canoe shot forth into clear sea, and the blue curtain
came down between the stranded and the going for help.
The Adelantado returned to us, and we waited. The weeks
crept by.
Great heat and sickness, and the Indians no longer prompt
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