| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: the other serves. Let my lord use no perfumes which come not
from well accredited persons; no unguents--no pomades. Let him,
on no account, drink with strangers, or eat fruit with them,
either in the way of nooning or otherwise. Especially, let him
observe such caution if he goes to Kenilworth--the excuse of his
illness, and his being under diet, will, and must, cover the
strangeness of such practice."
"And thou," said Tressilian, "what dost thou think to make of
thyself?"
"France, Spain, either India, East or West, shall be my refuge,"
said Wayland, "ere I venture my life by residing within ken of
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: city in the world, came by his principles of conduct, by his sense of
justice, by the goodness of a heart that was truly Christian, and
through his love for the only woman he had really won, to be
considered as a remarkable man, courageous, and full of resolution.
The public saw results only. Excepting Pillerault and Popinot the
judge, all the people of his own circle knew him superficially, and
were unable to judge him. Moreover, the twenty or thirty friends he
had collected about him talked the same nonsense, repeated the same
commonplaces, and all thought themselves superior in their own line.
The women vied with each other in dress and good dinners; each had
said her all when she dropped a contemptuous word about her husband.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: legislative recognition of particular interests of the workers,
by taking advantage of the divisions among the bourgeoisie
itself. Thus the ten-hours' bill in England was carried.
Altogether collisions between the classes of the old society
further, in many ways, the course of development of the
proletariat.
The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle.
At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions
of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become
antagonistic
to the progress of industry; at all times, with the bourgeoisie
The Communist Manifesto |
