| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: command society at that epoch, because it was an epoch when all men
were endeavoring to rise. Social classifications ready-made are
perhaps a great boon even for the people. Napoleon has confided to us
the pains he took to inspire respect in his court, where most of the
courtiers had been his equals. But Napoleon was Corsican, and Diard
Provencal. Given equal genius, an islander will always be more compact
and rounded than the man of terra firma in the same latitude; the arm
of the sea which separates Corsica from Provence is, in spite of human
science, an ocean which has made two nations.
Diard's mongrel position, which he himself made still more
questionable, brought him great troubles. Perhaps there is useful
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And the heart of Moses' mother was void on the morrow; she well-nigh
disclosed him, had it not been that we bound up her heart that she
might be of the believers.
And she said to his sister, 'Follow him up.' And she looked after
him from afar, and they did not perceive. And we made unlawful for him
the wet-nurses. And she said, 'Shall I guide you to the people of a
house who will take care of him for you, and who will be sincere
respecting him?
So we restored him to his mother that her eye might be cheered,
and that she might not grieve, and that she might know that the
promise of God is true, though most of them know not.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: in the world."
The fireman pondered a while, for he was a man of some philosophy.
"Granted," said he at last, as apart of the roof fell in; "but for
the sake of conversation, what would you lay down as the proper
service of the strong?"
"Nothing can possibly be easier," returned the sick man; "the
proper service of the strong is to help the weak."
Again the fireman reflected, for there was nothing hasty about this
excellent creature. "I could forgive you being sick," he said at
last, as a portion of the wall fell out, "but I cannot bear your
being such a fool." And with that he heaved up his fireman's axe,
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