| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: afternoon, each bringing its thousands of pleasure-seekers from
the uttermost parts of the earth to Capri and its delights. All
these things, I say, stretched below.
"But we noticed them only incidentally because of an unusual sight
that evening had to show. Five war aeroplanes that had long slumbered
useless in the distant arsenals of the Rhinemouth were manoeuvring
now in the eastward sky. Evesham had astonished the world by
producing them and others, and sending them to circle here and
there. It was the threat material in the great game of bluff he was
playing, and it had taken even me by surprise. He was one of those
incredibly stupid energetic people who seem sent by Heaven to create
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: wasn't the kind to start anything. She read a book and minded her
business, which was to make the world prettier and better just by
residing on it. I kept on looking out of the side doors of my eyes,
and finally the proposition got out of the Pullman class into a case
of a cottage with a lawn and vines running over the porch. I never
thought of speaking to her, but I let the plate-glass business go to
smash for a while.
"She changed cars at Cincinnati, and took a sleeper to Louisville over
the L. and N. There she bought another ticket, and went on through
Shelbyville, Frankfort, and Lexington. Along there I began to have a
hard time keeping up with her. The trains came along when they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: his eyes, the greatest guarantee of the stability of the State, and
of the safety of the community. Those who are ignorant of the
science of government, know that fact at least."
M. de Tocqueville, when he wrote these words, was lamenting that in
France, "freedom was forsaken;" "a thing for which it is said that
no one any longer cares in France." He did not, it seems to me,
perceive that, as in America the best guarantee of freedom is the
reverence for a religion or religions, which are free themselves,
and which teach men to be free; so in other countries the best
guarantee of slavery is, reverence for religions which are not free,
and which teach men to be slaves.
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