| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: them, and have remained unchanged in those coun-
tries ever since.
But in a time like this, it's comforting to have
a Cause to cling to.
No matter what happens, the advanced thinkers
must cling together and make their Cause count.
And if England should conquer France, and put
a king on the throne there again, no doubt there will
be a great revival of fashion, as there was in the
days of Napoleon I. and the Empress Eugenie.
But if all the advanced thinkers in the world
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: publishing houses. If it be not so, if the 'Footnotes' were really
sent, I hope you will fall upon the Post Office with all the vigour
you possess. How does THE WRECKER go in the States? It seems to
be doing exceptionally well in England. - Yours sincerely,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO J. M. BARRIE
VAILIMA PLANTATION, SAMOAN ISLANDS, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1892.
DEAR MR. BARRIE, - I can scarce thank you sufficiently for your
extremely amusing letter. No, THE AULD LICHT IDYLS never reached
me - I wish it had, and I wonder extremely whether it would not be
good for me to have a pennyworth of the Auld Licht pulpit. It is a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: tables in the middle of the room for their deliberations. It
was in this room that I saw Volsky first, and afterwards in
my own.
I asked him what exactly had brought him and all that he
represented over from the side of Kolchak and the Allies to
the side of the Soviet Government. He looked me
straight in the face, and said: "I'll tell you. We were
convinced by many facts that the policy of the Allied
representatives in Siberia was directed not to strengthening
the Constituent Assembly against the Bolsheviks and the
Germans, but simply to strengthening the reactionary forces
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