| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: direct copies of natural sounds. Neither the Redskin nor the
Indo-European had any choice as to the main features of the
career of his solar divinity. He must be born of the
Night,--or of the Dawn,--must travel westward, must slay
harassing demons. Eliminating these points of likeness, the
resemblance between the Aryan and barbaric legends is at once
at an end. Such an identity in point of details as that
between the wooden horse which enters Ilion, and the horse
which bears Sigurd into the place where Brynhild is
imprisoned, and the Druidic steed which leaps with Sculloge
over the walls of Fiach's enchanted castle, is, I believe,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: of difficulty. They are so few - I am ashamed to give their
number, it were to challenge contradiction - they are so few, and
the amount of national capital buried at their feet is so vast,
that we must not wonder if they seem oppressed with greatness and
the sense of empire. Other whites take part in our brabbles, while
temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment. In the
Germans alone, no trace of humour is to be observed, and their
solemnity is accompanied by a touchiness often beyond belief.
Patriotism flies in arms about a hen; and if you comment upon the
colour of a Dutch umbrella, you have cast a stone against the
German Emperor. I give one instance, typical although extreme.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Were it worth the pleasure,
We never could learn love's song,
We are parted too long.
Could the passionate past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
I remember we used to meet
By an ivied seat,
And you warbled each pretty word
With the air of a bird;
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