| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: which are found to underlie all the beliefs and opinions of
crowds. They are race, traditions, time, institutions, and
education.
We now proceed to study the influence of these different factors.
1. RACE
This factor, race, must be placed in the first rank, for in
itself it far surpasses in importance all the others. We have
sufficiently studied it in another work; it is therefore needless
to deal with it again. We showed, in a previous volume, what an
historical race is, and how, its character once formed, it
possesses, as the result of the laws of heredity such power that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with a fellow man, and still more preposterous that such a
one could read and write.
He looked again at Tarzan's message--"except once, with
Jane Porter." That was the American girl who had been
carried into the jungle by a gorilla.
A sudden light commenced to dawn on D'Arnot--this then
was the "gorilla." He seized the pencil and wrote:
Where is Jane Porter?
And Tarzan replied, below:
Back with her people in the cabin of Tarzan of the Apes.
She is not dead then? Where was she? What happened to her?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: this time of year. But the brown of California and
the brown of the East are two different things. Here
is no snow or rain to mat down the grass, to suck
out of it the vital principles. It grows ripe and sweet
and soft, rich with the life that has not drained away,
covering the hills and valleys with the effect of beaver
fur, so that it seems the great round-backed hills must
have in a strange manner the yielding flesh-elasticity
of living creatures. The brown of California is the
brown of ripeness; not of decay.
Our little meadow was beautifully named Madulce,[1]
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