| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: with you."
He rose hastily; but, ere he withdrew into the hut, he added,
with great vehemence, "Yet, lest you still think my apparent
benefits to mankind flow from the stupid and servile source,
called love of our fellow-creatures, know, that were there a man
who had annihilated my soul's dearest hope--who had torn my heart
to mammocks, and seared mp brain till it glowed like a volcano,
and were that man's fortune and life in my power as completely as
this frail potsherd" (he snatched up an earthen cup which stood
beside him), "I would not dash him into atoms thus"--(he flung
the vessel with fury against the wall),--"No!" (he spoke more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: Her lips quivered with the painful recognition of
the task before her. Yet when she spoke, her voice was
low and sweet and its tones even. She gave no sign to
the man whose heavy form rested in her arms.
"Then from today we must begin to cut out every
word of slang--it's a bargain?"
"Sure, Mike--I promised!"
"Cut `Sure Mike!'"
She raised her finger severely.
"All right, teacher," he drawled. "What'll we put
in Sure Mike's place? I've found him a handy man!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: Mysterious black figures came by me and were suddenly changed to the
commonplace at the touch of the nearer lamps. It was a big confused
world, I felt, for a man to lay his hands upon.
I remember I crossed Vauxhall Bridge and stood for a time watching
the huge black shapes in the darkness under the gas-works. A shoal
of coal barges lay indistinctly on the darkly shining mud and water
below, and a colossal crane was perpetually hauling up coal into
mysterious blacknesses above, and dropping the empty clutch back to
the barges. Just one or two minute black featureless figures of men
toiled amidst these monster shapes. They did not seem to be
controlling them but only moving about among them. These gas-works
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