| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "Indeed," said Battiscomb, "I think we may be fairly certain of Mr.
Legge and Mr. Hooper."
"And of none besides?" questioned Fletcher again. "Be these the only
representatives of the flower of England's nobility that is to flock
to the banner of the cause of England's freedom and religion?" Scorn
was stamped on every word of his question.
Battiscomb spread his hands, raised his brows, and said nothing.
"The Lord knows I do not say it exulting," said Fletcher; "but I told
Your Grace yours was hardly the case of Henry the Seventh, as my Lord
Grey would have you believe."
"We shall see," snapped Grey, scowling at the Scot. "The people are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put
on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the
entire bourgeois society. In these crises a great part not only
of the existing products, but also of the previously created
productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises
there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would
have seemed an absurdity -- the epidemic of over-production.
Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary
barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of
devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence;
industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: was kindled in him by beauty of deed rather than of person.[9]
[9] Or, "beauteous deeds rather than bodily splendour."
Skilled in the exercise of self-command in the midst of external
welfare, he could be stout of heart enough in stress of danger.
Urbanity he practised, not with jest and witticisim, but by the
courtesy of his demeanour.
In spite of a certain haughtiness, he was never overbearing, but rich
in saving common sense. At any rate, while pouring contempt upon
arrogance, he bore himself more humbly than the most ordinary man. In
fact, what he truly took a pride in was the simplicity of his own
attire, in contrast with the splendid adornment of his troops; or,
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