| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: necessary for him to perform his duty is entrusted. There may be
nations whom this distribution of social powers might lead to
anarchy; but in itself it is not anarchical. The action of
authority is indeed thus rendered less irresistible and less
perilous, but it is not totally suppressed.
The revolution of the United States was the result of a
mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or
ill-defined craving for independence. It contracted no alliance
with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was
marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful
and orderly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: this was the way in which she began her sorrowful journey,
holding her torch before her, and looking carefully at every
object along the path. And as it happened, she had not gone far
before she found one of the magnificent flowers which grew on
the shrub that Proserpina had pulled up.
"Ha!" thought Mother Ceres, examining it by torchlight. "Here
is mischief in this flower! The earth did not produce it by any
help of mine, nor of its own accord. It is the work of
enchantment, and is therefore poisonous; and perhaps it has
poisoned my poor child."
But she put the poisonous flower in her bosom, not knowing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: kept begging me to hurry and get the burglar out of the house, and
after telling her that she would have to appear in the Police Court
first thing that morning, I went off with the prisoner."
"Were there lights in the house?" questioned Penfield.
"Only dim ones in the halls and two bulbs turned on in the library;
it's a big room though, and they hardly made any light at all,"
explained O'Ryan; he was particular as to details. "I used
handcuffs on the prisoner, thinking maybe he'd give me the slip in
the dim light, but there was no fight or flight in him."
"Did he talk to you on the way to the station house?"
"No, sir; and at the station he was just as quiet, only answered
The Red Seal |
