| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: helping the people? What if sub-delegates and other officials,
holding office at the will of the intendant, had to live, and even
provide against a rainy day? What if intendants, holding office at
the will of the Comptroller-General, had to do more than live, and
found it prudent to realise as large a fortune as possible, not only
against disgrace, but against success, and the dignity fit for a new
member of the Noblesse de la Robe? Would not the system, then, soon
become intolerable? Would there not be evil times for the masses,
till they became something more than masses?
It is an ugly name, that of "The Masses," for the great majority of
human beings in a nation. He who uses it speaks of them not as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: on the bedroom floor, finding that their united length was the same as
that of the doctor's library, and gave room for his bookshelves.
Savinien and Bongrand urged on the workmen who were cleaning,
painting, and otherwise renewing the tiny place, so that before the
end of March Ursula was able to leave the inn and take up her abode in
the ugly house; where, however, she found a bedroom exactly like the
one she had left; for it was filled with all her furniture, claimed by
the justice of peace when the seals were removed. La Bougival,
sleeping in the attic, could be summoned by a bell placed near the
head of the young girl's bed. The room intended for the books, the
salon on the ground-floor and the kitchen, though still unfurnished,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Nevertheless, the unequalness of the ground would not permit a widely
extended front to be so exactly drawn up as to have their shields
everywhere joined; and Aemilius perceived that there were a great many
interstices and breaches in the Macedonian phalanx; as it usually happens
in all great armies, according to the different efforts of the
combatants, who in one part press forward with eagerness, and in another
are forced to fall back. Taking, therefore, this occasion, with all
speed he broke up his men into their cohorts, and gave them order to fall
into the intervals and openings of the enemy's body, and not to make one
general attack upon them all, but to engage, as they were divided, in
several partial battles. These commands Aemilius gave to his captains,
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