The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: and laid her hand on his arm he knew almost as soon that she
mightn't resent it as much as she'd have liked.
CHAPTER VII.
HE learned in that instant two things: one being that even in so
long a time she had gathered no knowledge of his great intimacy and
his great quarrel; the other that in spite of this ignorance,
strangely enough, she supplied on the spot a reason for his stupor.
"How extraordinary," he presently exclaimed, "that we should never
have known!"
She gave a wan smile which seemed to Stransom stranger even than
the fact itself. "I never, never spoke of him."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: is celebrated during the festivals of Corpus Christi, the
Immaculate Conception, and the Carnival.
Numerous instances might of course be adduced of how
a Church aspiring to be a real Church of Humanity might
adopt and re-create the rituals of the past in the light of
a modern inspiration. Indeed the difficulty would be to
limit the process, for EVERY ancient ritual, we can now
see, has had a meaning and a message, and it would be a
real joy to disentangle these and to expose the profound
solidarity of humanity and aspiration from the very dawn
of civilization down to the present day. Nor would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: turned back and met a short distance in the rear of the
party they had deserted--in another moment they were
headed for the long-house from which they had started.
It was fully an hour thereafter that doubts began to
enter Bulan's head, and as the day dragged on he came
to realize that he and his weird pack were alone and lost
in the heart of a strange and tangled web of tropical jungle.
No sooner had Bulan and his party disappeared in the
jungle than Barunda and Ninaka made haste to embark
with the chest and the girl and push rapidly on up the
river toward the wild and inaccessible regions of the
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