| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: ligion, or superstition, are by the adverse part
branded with the name of atheists. But the great
atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever
handling holy things, but without feeling; so as
they must needs be cauterized in the end. The
causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they
be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to
both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism.
Another is, scandal of priests; when it is come to
that which St. Bernard saith, non est jam dicere,
ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic populus ut
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: sometimes exercise upon the finances of a State was very clearly
seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which
the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent
citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the
populace. It is true that the representative system was then
very imperfectly known, and that, at the present time, the
influence of popular passion is less felt in the conduct of
public affairs; but it may be believed that the delegate will in
the end conform to the principles of his constituents, and favor
their propensities as much as their interests.
The extravagance of democracy is, however, less to be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: am glad.' After that she lay quiet for a long time, breathing
softly, her head upon my breast. Then she whispered: 'The trail
ends here, and I am tired. But first I would speak of other
things. In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I
played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the
men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in
the meat. It was in the spring, and I was alone. A great brown
bear, just awake from his winter's sleep, hungry, his fur hanging
to the bones in flaps of leanness, shoved his head within the
lodge and said, "Oof!" My brother came running back with the
first sled of meat. And he fought the bear with burning sticks
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