| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: from those as the other. As for the most signal events abroad in
France, Flanders, Italy and Spain, I shall make no scruple to
predict them in plain terms: Some of them are of importance, and
I hope I shall seldom mistake the day they will happen;
therefore, I think good to inform the reader, that I all along
make use of the Old Style observed in England, which I desire he
will compare with that of the news-papers, at the time they
relate the actions I mention.
I must add one word more: I know it hath been the opinion of
several of the learned, who think well enough of the true art of
astrology, That the stars do only incline, and not force the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: up the side of the cathedral. The grounds were walled
up on this side, and he sought in vain for entrance. At the
rear he discovered a limousine standing in the alley where
its chauffeur had left it after depositing his passengers at
the front door of the cathedral. The top of the limousine
was but a foot or two below the top of the wall.
Maenck clambered to the hood of the machine, and from
there to the top. A moment later he dropped to the earth
inside the cathedral grounds. Before him were many win-
dows. Most of them were too high for him to reach, and
the others that he tried at first were securely fastened. Pass-
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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: that must satisfy a rational German as completely as a rational
Frenchman or Englishman. It has nothing against it but the
prejudice against new and entirely novel things.
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In throwing out the suggestion that America should ultimately
undertake the responsibility of proposing a world peace
settlement, I admit that I run counter to a great deal of
European feeling. Nowhere in Europe now do people seem to be in
love with the United States. But feeling is a colour that
passes. And the question is above matters of feeling. Whether
the belligerents dislike Americans or the Americans dislike the
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