| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: archduchess of Austria, Queen of France, dying on the
scaffold, and a few years later another archduchess, her
relative, replacing her on the same throne and marrying a sub-
lieutenant, turned Emperor--here are tragedies unique in human
history. The psychologists, above all, will derive lessons from
a history hitherto so little studied by them. No doubt they will
finally discover that psychology can make no progress until it
renounces chimerical theories and laboratory experiments in order
to study the events and the men who surround us.[7]
[7] This advice is far from being banal. The psychologists of
the day pay very little attention to the world about them, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: figure, 'could that be you?'
'It was I,' he replied; 'but do not fancy that I was mad. I
was in agony. I had been scalded cruelly.'
We were now near the house, which, unlike the ordinary houses
of the country, was built of hewn stone and very solid.
Stone, too, was its foundation, stone its background. Not a
blade of grass sprouted among the broken mineral about the
walls, not a flower adorned the windows. Over the door, by
way of sole adornment, the Mormon Eye was rudely sculptured;
I had been brought up to view that emblem from my childhood;
but since the night of our escape, it had acquired a new
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: "Well, (replied my Brother in a tone of vexation, and glancing an
impertinent look at me) if they HAVE but little colour, at least,
it is all their own."
This was too much my dear Charlotte, for I am certain that he had
the impudence by that look, of pretending to suspect the reality
of mine. But you I am sure will vindicate my character whenever
you may hear it so cruelly aspersed, for you can witness how
often I have protested against wearing Rouge, and how much I
always told you I disliked it. And I assure you that my opinions
are still the same.--. Well, not bearing to be so suspected by
my Brother, I left the room immediately, and have been ever since
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