| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: than my neighbors; and so came home again, to find that while I had
been wasting my time in that land of misrule, Raleigh had done a
deed to which I can see no end. For, lad, he has found (or rather
his two captains, Amadas and Barlow, have found for him) between
Florida and Newfoundland, a country, the like of which, I believe,
there is not on the earth for climate and fertility. Whether there
be gold there, I know not, and it matters little; for there is all
else on earth that man can want; furs, timber, rivers, game, sugar-
canes, corn, fruit, and every commodity which France, Spain, or
Italy can yield, wild in abundance; the savages civil enough for
savages, and, in a word, all which goes to the making of as noble a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: government--'Free water we will have, and as much as we reasonably
choose;' and tell every candidate for the House of Commons:
'Unless you promise to get us as much free water as we reasonably
choose, we will not return you to Parliament:' then, I think, we
four should put such a 'pressure' on Government as no water
companies, or other vested interests, could long resist. And if
any of those four classes should hang back, and waste their time
and influence over matters far less important and less pressing,
the other three must laugh at them, and more than laugh at them;
and ask them: 'Why have you education, why have you influence,
why have you votes, why are you freemen and not slaves, if not to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: with the complaining of the waves, and the rustling of the great trees
on the summit of the Acropolis.
"Hush!" cried Salammbo.
"What ails you, mistress? The blowing of the breeze, the passing of a
cloud, everything disquiets you just now!"
"I do not know," she said.
"You are wearied with too long prayers!"
"Oh! Tanaach, I would fain be dissolved in them like a flower in
wine!"
"Perhaps it is the smoke of your perfumes?"
"No!" said Salammbo; "the spirit of the gods dwells in fragrant
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