| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: can collect all stages of man from a baboon to a company
director or a Communist. Some of the more primitive
kinds of conscription were not among the least successful.
For example, at the time(in the spring of the year)when the
Russians still hoped that the Poles would be content with the
huge area of non-Polish territory they had already seized, the
army on the western front was without any elaborate system
of decrees being turned into a labor army. The work done
was at first ordinary country work, mainly woodcutting.
They tried to collaborate with the local "Troikas," sending
help when these Committees asked for it. This, however,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: The loveliest woman -- she's quite advanced,
really, and has the most charming toilettes -- told
our Little Group of Serious Thinkers the other
night that this is the time when Woman must rule
the world.
It is the test of the New Woman.
If ANYTHING is saved from the wreck it will be
because of Her.
She can write letters to the papers, you know,
against war and-and all that sort of thing, you know.
And, of course, if the Germans and Russians and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: to fit up the apparatus for his forge. At 9 p.m. the boats
returned to the tender, after other two hours' work, in the
same order as formerly - perhaps as much gratified with the
success that attended the work of this day as with any other
in the whole course of the operations. Although it could not
he said that the fatigues of this day had been great, yet all
on board retired early to rest. The sea being calm, and no
movement on deck, it was pretty generally remarked in the
morning that the bell awakened the greater number on board
from their first sleep; and though this observation was not
altogether applicable to the writer himself, yet he was not a
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