| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: all for your work."
But Santa Claus refused to be envious of the toy shops.
"I can supply the little ones but once a year--on Christmas Eve," he
answered; "for the children are many, and I am but one. And as my
work is one of love and kindness I would be ashamed to receive money
for my little gifts. But throughout all the year the children must be
amused in some way, and so the toy shops are able to bring much
happiness to my little friends. I like the toy shops, and am glad to
see them prosper."
In spite of the second rebuff, the Daemon of Hatred thought he would
try to influence Santa Claus. So the next day he entered the busy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: contented to lurk under the shelter of the wealthier and more
powerful party. The prospect of bringing to a uniformity the
kingdoms of England and Scotland in discipline and worship,
seemed therefore as fair as it was desirable.
The celebrated Sir Henry Vane, one of the commissioners who
negotiated the alliance betwixt England and Scotland, saw the
influence which this bait had upon the spirits of those with whom
he dealt; and although himself a violent Independent, he
contrived at once to gratify and to elude the eager desires of
the Presbyterians, by qualifying the obligation to reform the
Church of England, as a change to be executed "according to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: Fowling is the general term under which the hunting of all birds
is included.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: The hunting of animals who live in the water has the general
name of fishing.
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: And this sort of hunting may be further divided also into two
principal kinds?
THEAETETUS: What are they?
STRANGER: There is one kind which takes them in nets, another which takes
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