| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: The deeper ground for Toleration is the nature of creation, which, as
we now know, proceeds by evolution. Evolution finds its way by
experiment; and this finding of the way varies according to the stage
of development reached, from the blindest groping along the line of
least resistance to intellectual speculation, with its practical
sequel of hypothesis and experimental verification; or to observation,
induction, and deduction; or even into so rapid and intuitive an
integration of all these processes in a single brain that we get the
inspired guess of the man of genius and the desperate resolution of
the teacher of new truths who is first slain as a blasphemous apostate
and then worshipped as a prophet.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: Michaelis) would leave the social values untouched. The
disappearance of the last piece of money could not affect people of
position. She could not conceive how it could affect her position,
for instance. She had developed these discoveries to the Assistant
Commissioner with all the serene fearlessness of an old woman who
had escaped the blight of indifference. He had made for himself
the rule to receive everything of that sort in a silence which he
took care from policy and inclination not to make offensive. He
had an affection for the aged disciple of Michaelis, a complex
sentiment depending a little on her prestige, on her personality,
but most of all on the instinct of flattered gratitude. He felt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: the only one who can appreciate the joy of living."
"If I had a hand, instead of a cloven hoof, I'd like
to shake hands with you, Nikobob," said Bilbil the
goat. "But the poor man must not have a cruel master,
or he is undone."
During the council they found, indeed, that the
advice of the charcoal-burner was both shrewd and
sensible, and they profited much by his words.
Inga gave Captain Buzzub the command of the warriors
and made him promise to keep his men quiet and orderly
-- if he could. Then the boy allowed all of King Gos's
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