| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: race; the Roman Empire had failed to understand them, and the Barbaric
hordes came down.
"The Barbaric hordes now are the intelligent class. The laws of
overpressure are at this moment acting slowly and silently in our
midst. The Government is the great criminal; it does not appreciate
the two powers to which it owes everything; it has allowed its hands
to be tied by the absurdities of the Contract; it is bound, ready to
be the victim.
"Louis XIV., Napoleon, England, all were or are eager for intelligent
youth. In France the young are condemned by the new legislation, by
the blundering principles of elective rights, by the unsoundness of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: uneasily, like a herd of cattle, at the sound of his voice. But
not one spoke. All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude
of expectancy. Something was about to happen, and they were
waiting for it, waiting with the unanimous, unstable mob-mind for
the one of them who would make the first action that would
precipitate all of them into a common action. Sheldon looked for
this one, for such was the one to fear. Directly beneath him he
caught sight of the muzzle of a rifle, barely projecting between
two black bodies, that was slowly elevating toward him. It was
held at the hip by a man in the second row.
"What name you?" Sheldon suddenly shouted, pointing directly at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: the people, he had quitted France immediately after the fall of the
Bastille. He had gone to play tennis beyond the frontier - and
there consummate the work of ruining the French monarchy upon which
he and those others had been engaged in France. With him, amongst
several members of his household went Etienne de Kercadiou, and with
Etienne de Kercadiou went his family, a wife and four children.
Thus it was that the Seigneur de Gavrillac, glad to escape from a
province so peculiarly disturbed as that of Brittany - where the
nobles had shown themselves the most intransigent of all France
- had come to occupy in his brother's absence the courtier's
handsome villa at Meudon.
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