| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: friendship, but I wish it for the man, Norman of Torn,
with all his faults as well as what virtues you may think
him to possess."
"You are right, sir," said the Earl, "you have our
gratitude and our thanks for the service you have ren-
dered the house of Montfort, and ever during our lives
you may command our favors. I admire your bravery
and your candor, but while you continue the Outlaw of
Torn you may not break bread at the table of De
Montfort as a friend would have the right to do."
"Your speech is that of a wise and careful man," said
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: feelings and purses of the bourgeois. By degrees they sink into
the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists depicted
above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and
by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous
effects of their social science.
They, therefore, violently oppose all political action on the
part of the working class; such action, according to them, can
only result from blind unbelief in the new Gospel.
The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France,
respectively, oppose the Chartists and the Reformistes.
IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: will see me to-night."
"I was wise to destroy that drug," she said in a voice that was faint
with the pleasure of finding herself so loved. "The fear of awakening
my husband will save us from ourselves."
"I pledge you my life," said the young man, pressing her hand.
"If the king is willing, the pope can annul my marriage. We will then
be united," she said, giving him a look that was full of delightful
hopes.
"Monseigneur comes!" cried the page, rushing in.
Instantly the young nobleman, surprised at the short time he had
gained with his mistress and wondering at the celerity of the count,
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