| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: French. They do not think. They feel. At the outbreak of the
war, when the performance of France seemed doubtful, there was an
enormous feeling for France in Great Britain; it was like the
formless feeling one has for a brother. It was as if Britain had
discovered a new instinct. If France had crumpled up like paper,
the English would have fought on passionately to restore her.
That is ancient history now. Now the English still feel
fraternal and fraternally proud; but in a mute way they are
dazzled. Since the German attack on Verdun began, the French
have achieved a crescendo. None of us could have imagined it.
It did not seem possible to very many of us at the end of 1915
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: [Exit hastily.]
JONATHAN
Gor! she's gone off in a swinging passion, before I
had time to think of consequences. If this is the way
with your city ladies, give me the twenty acres of rock,
the Bible, the cow, and Tabitha, and a little peaceable
bundling.
SCENE II. The Mall.
Enter MANLY.
It must be so, Montague! and it is not all the tribe
of Mandevilles that shall convince me that a nation,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: insincerities upon which Margaret and I were building.
It seems to me that here I have to tell perhaps the commonest
experience of all among married educated people, the deliberate,
shy, complex effort to fill the yawning gaps in temperament as they
appear, the sustained, failing attempt to bridge abysses, level
barriers, evade violent pressures. I have come these latter years
of my life to believe that it is possible for a man and woman to be
absolutely real with one another, to stand naked souled to each
other, unashamed and unafraid, because of the natural all-glorifying
love between them. It is possible to love and be loved untroubling,
as a bird flies through the air. But it is a rare and intricate
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