| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: secret assaults of some of its own folks, or only as an sportfull
ape to counterfeit all his actions."--KIRKE'S SECRET
COMMOMWEALTH, p. 3.
The two following apparitions, resembling the vision of Allan
M'Aulay in the text, occur in Theophilus Insulanus (Rev. Mr.
Fraser's Treatise on the Second Sight, Relations x. and xvii.):--
"Barbara Macpherson, relict of the deceased Mr. Alexander
MacLeod, late minister of St. Kilda, informed me the natives of
that island had a particular kind of second sight, which is
always a forerunner of their approaching end. Some months before
they sicken, they are haunted with an apparition, resembling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: very plainly," said Butler. "Yes, and what is more, I mean what
I say," replied Bain. Butler justified Bain's candour by saying
that if he broke out again, he would be worse than the most
savage tiger ever let loose on the community. As a means of
obviating such an outbreak, Butler suggested that, intellectual
employment having failed, some form of manual labour should be
found him. Bain complied with Butler's request, and got him a
job at levelling reclaimed ground in the neighbourhood of
Dunedin. On Wednesday, March 10, Butler started work, but after
three hours of it relinquished the effort. Bain saw Butler again
in Dunedin on the evening of Saturday, March 13, and made an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: aspires to show that, for his part, he is an exception to the
general state of things which he vaunts. There is hardly an
American to be met with who does not claim some remote kindred
with the first founders of the colonies; and as for the scions of
the noble families of England, America seemed to me to be covered
with them. When an opulent American arrives in Europe, his first
care is to surround himself with all the luxuries of wealth: he
is so afraid of being taken for the plain citizen of a democracy,
that he adopts a hundred distorted ways of bringing some new
instance of his wealth before you every day. His house will be
in the most fashionable part of the town: he will always be
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