| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: should bring her lots of gold. No fear! Off he
went, and she never saw him again."
"What became of her?" she breathed out.
"The song don't tell. Cried a bit, I daresay.
They were the fellows: kiss and go. But it's the
looking for a thing--a something . . . Sometimes
I think I am a sort of Gambucino myself."
"No woman can hold you, then," she began in
a brazen voice, which quavered suddenly before the
end.
"No longer than a week," he joked, playing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: exactly how many yoke of oxen are sufficient for the estate, and how
many farm hands. To send into the field more than the exact number
requisite every farmer would consider a dead loss.[5] But in silver
mining [operations] the universal complaint is the want of hands.
Indeed there is no analogy between this and other industries. With an
increase in the number of bronze-workers articles of bronze may become
so cheap that the bronze-worker has to retire from the field. And so
again with ironfounders. Or again, in a plethoric condition of the
corn and wine market these fruits of the soil will be so depreciated
in value that the particular husbandries cease to be remunerative, and
many a farmer will give up his tillage of the soil and betake himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: present condition, in order that when he too should be laid thus
low, he might likewise be sustained by a conscience void of
offence." What more is needed to complete the disgusting picture?
Philip was fanatical up to the point where fanaticism borders
upon hypocrisy. He was possessed with a "great moral idea," the
idea of making Catholicism the ruler of the world, that he might
be the ruler of Catholicism. Why, it may be said, shall the
charge of fanaticism be allowed to absolve Isabella and extenuate
the guilt of Charles, while it only strengthens the case against
Philip? Because Isabella persecuted heretics in order to save
their souls from a worse fate, while Philip burnt them in order
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