| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: Minister of Public Instruction, M. Jules Simon, "is a ludicrous
form of education whose every effort is an act of faith tacitly
admitting the infallibility of the master, and whose only results
are a belittling of ourselves and a rendering of us impotent."
Were this education merely useless, one might confine one's self
to expressing compassion for the unhappy children who, instead of
making needful studies at the primary school, are instructed in
the genealogy of the sons of Clotaire, the conflicts between
Neustria and Austrasia, or zoological classifications. But the
system presents a far more serious danger. It gives those who
have been submitted to it a violent dislike to the state of life
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: still my child--my only child. Where is Miss Ilderton? she must
know something of this. It corresponds with what I was informed
of her schemes. Go, Dixon, call Ratcliffe here Let him come
without a minute's delay." The person he had named at this moment
entered the room.
"I say, Dixon," continued Mr. Vere, in an altered tone, "let Mr.
Ratcliffe know, I beg the favour of his company on particular
business.--Ah! my dear sir," he proceeded, as if noticing him
for the first time, "you are the very man whose advice can be of
the utmost service to me in this cruel extremity."
"What has happened, Mr. Vere, to discompose you?" said Mr,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: be all night. I heard 'em say so. The Oskaloosie Kid's
with her an' annuder guy an' the girl I seen with the
dead man in Squibbs' woods an' they got a BEAR!" It
was almost a shriek. "You'd better come right away
an' bring Mr. Prim. I'll meet you on the ol' Toledo road
right south of Payson, an' say, do I get the whole re-
ward?"
"You'll get whatever's coming to you, son," replied
Burton. "You say there are two men and two women--
are you sure that is all?"
"And the bear," corrected Willie.
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