| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: traffic. Consequently, they are not necessarily condemned to the
high-roads, but within certain limits are able to travel across
country, i.e., upon fields or other level expanses, where the
soil is not unduly soft.
But the very character of the problem rendered the evolution of
the vehicle a somewhat perplexing matter. There were many
factors which had to be taken into consideration, and it was
possible to meet the imposed requirements only within certain
limits. In the first place, the weight of the gun itself had to
be kept down. It was obviously useless to overload the chassis.
Again, the weight of the projectile and its velocity had to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: I came naturally to the conclusion that poverty must be the general
condition of the people of the free States. In the country from which I came,
a white man holding no slaves was usually an ignorant and poverty-stricken man,
and men of this class were contemptuously called "poor white trash."
Hence I supposed that, since the non-slave-holders at the South were ignorant,
poor, and degraded as a class, the non-slave-holders at the North must be
in a similar condition. I could have landed in no part of the United States
where I should have found a more striking and gratifying contrast,
not only to life generally in the South, but in the condition of the colored
people there, than in New Bedford. I was amazed when Mr. Johnson told me
that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: perplex the thinker, all the more as we shall see the cruel vampire
become a model of devotion where her family is concerned.
The ogre loved his children; he ate the children of others. Under
the tyranny of the stomach, we are all of us, beasts and men alike,
ogres. The dignity of labour, the joy of life, maternal affection,
the terrors of death: all these do not count, in others; the main
point is that morsel the be tender and savoury.
According to the etymology of her name--[Greek text], a cord--the
Thomisus should be like the ancient lictor, who bound the sufferer
to the stake. The comparison is not inappropriate as regards many
Spiders who tie their prey with a thread to subdue it and consume
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