| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: all kinds of misery. Education, as well as charity, is become in
most countries at the present day a national concern. The State
receives, and often takes, the child from the arms of the mother,
to hand it over to official agents: the State undertakes to train
the heart and to instruct the mind of each generation.
Uniformity prevails in the courses of public instruction as in
everything else; diversity, as well as freedom, is disappearing
day by day. Nor do I hesitate to affirm, that amongst almost all
the Christian nations of our days, Catholic as well as
Protestant, religion is in danger of falling into the hands of
the government. Not that rulers are over-jealous of the right of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: long. Your plan was to murder your step-sister, even if you could
not get a letter from her telling of her intention to commit suicide."
Langen rose suddenly, but controlled himself again and sank back
easily in his chair. "Then the old woman has been talking?" he
asked.
Muller shook his head. "We knew it through Miss Langen herself."
"She has spoken to no one for over ten days."
"But you let her throw her notebook out of the window of the cab."
"Ah - "
"There, you see, you should not have let that happen."
Drops of perspiration stood out on Langen's forehead. Until now,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: they only had to get it. They ranged through every suggestion,
every shade of fortune, which evidently included indeed lots of bad
luck as well as of good, declining even toward Mr. Mudge and his
bland firm thrift, and ascending, in wild signals and rocket-
flights, almost to within hail of her highest standard. So from
month to month she went on with them all, through a thousand ups
and downs and a thousand pangs and indifferences. What virtually
happened was that in the shuffling herd that passed before her by
far the greater part only passed--a proportion but just appreciable
stayed. Most of the elements swam straight away, lost themselves
in the bottomless common, and by so doing really kept the page
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