| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: VARIETY of spontaneous manifestations in different individuals
and the vital necessity that these should be recognized,
if society is ever to expand into a rational human
form. It is not my object here to sketch the future
of marriage and sex-relations generally--a subject
which is now being dealt with very effectively from many
sides; but only to insist on our using our good sense in the
whole matter, and refusing any longer to be bound by senseless
pre-judgments.
Something of the same kind may be said with regard to
Nakedness, which in modern Civilization has become the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: thing. Do you not agree?
Yes, I do.
Then, my friend, those who say that the like is friendly to the like mean
to intimate, if I rightly apprehend them, that the good only is the friend
of the good, and of him only; but that the evil never attains to any real
friendship, either with good or evil. Do you agree?
He nodded assent.
Then now we know how to answer the question 'Who are friends?' for the
argument declares 'That the good are friends.'
Yes, he said, that is true.
Yes, I replied; and yet I am not quite satisfied with this answer. By
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Mr. Brand, of course, has property of his own, eh?"
"I believe he has some property; but that has nothing to do with it."
"With you, of course not; but with your father and sister it must have.
So, as I say, if this were settled, I should feel more at liberty. "
"More at liberty?" Gertrude repeated. "Please unfasten the boat."
Felix untwisted the rope and stood holding it.
"I should be able to say things to you that I can't
give myself the pleasure of saying now," he went on.
"I could tell you how much I admire you, without seeming
to pretend to that which I have no right to pretend to.
I should make violent love to you," he added, laughing, "if I
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