| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: not arm openly, for we would then arm to meet her. She is
planning to attack us by a method that is new. She will weaken us
by propaganda, and when we are helpless she will march over us at
will.
Who then are the propagandists that Nature is using to
undermine the race that conquered her? Communists, slackers, sick
men and fools. The man who says let us "quit work and divide our
cake and eat it" is opening the way for Nature to strike suddenly
with a famine. The man who advocates "one big strike" to destroy
our capital is the secret agent of starvation. Nature when up in
arms can sweep men off like flies. She has always done it and she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: clothes the king gave him.
He spread his clothes out in the sun until they were dry, and
then he put them on and went back into the town again.
"Well," said the king, that morning, to his chief councillor,
"what do you think now? Am I not greater than Fate? Did I not
make the beggar rich? And shall I not paint my father's words out
from the wall, and put my own there instead?"
"I do not know," said the councillor, shaking his head. "Let us
first see what has become of the beggar."
"So be it," said the king; and he and the councillor set off to
see whether the beggar had done as he ought to do with the good
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: tongue, or the subtle seduction of his manner; he
had no more of what is called "manner" than an
animal--which, however, on the other hand, is
never, and can never be called vulgar. Therefore
it must have been his bodily appearance, exhibiting
a virility of nature as exaggerated as his beard, and
resembling a sort of constant ruthlessness. It was
seen in the very manner he lolled in the chair. He
meant no offence, but his intercourse was charac-
terised by that sort of frank disregard of suscepti-
bilities a man of seven foot six, living in a world of
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