| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of
production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions,
everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois
epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations,
with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
opinions,
are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they
can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy
is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober
senses,
his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: the body, which minister to the body.
ALCIBIADES: That is true.
SOCRATES: Then if temperance is the knowledge of self, in respect of his
art none of them is temperate?
ALCIBIADES: I agree.
SOCRATES: And this is the reason why their arts are accounted vulgar, and
are not such as a good man would practise?
ALCIBIADES: Quite true.
SOCRATES: Again, he who cherishes his body cherishes not himself, but what
belongs to him?
ALCIBIADES: That is true.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: intervention of Rumania, penetrated into Italian territory was
about six miles.
III. BEHIND THE FRONT
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I have a peculiar affection for Verona and certain things in
Verona. Italians must forgive us English this little streak of
impertinent proprietorship in the beautiful things of their
abundant land. It is quite open to them to revenge themselves by
professing a tenderness for Liverpool or Leeds. It was, for
instance, with a peculiar and personal indignation that I saw
where an Austrian air bomb had killed five-and-thirty people in
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