| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: parties in an individual capacity. For, as it had been declared
that the Union consisted of one and the same people within the
limits laid down by the Constitution, the inference was that the
Government created by this Constitution, and acting within these
limits, was invested with all the privileges of a national
government, one of the principal of which is the right of
transmitting its injunctions directly to the private citizen.
When, for instance, the Union votes an impost, it does not apply
to the States for the levying of it, but to every American
citizen in proportion to his assessment. The Supreme Court,
which is empowered to enforce the execution of this law of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: But we are Learning's changelings, know by rote
The clarion watchword of each Grecian school
And follow none, the flawless sword which smote
The pagan Hydra is an effete tool
Which we ourselves have blunted, what man now
Shall scale the august ancient heights and to old Reverence bow?
One such indeed I saw, but, Ichabod!
Gone is that last dear son of Italy,
Who being man died for the sake of God,
And whose unrisen bones sleep peacefully,
O guard him, guard him well, my Giotto's tower,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: the blinds into the square and there she saw, in the moonlight, a man
hurrying in the direction of the colonel's house, in front of which
Brigaut happened to stop. The old maid gently opened her door, went
upstairs, was amazed to find a light in Pierrette's room, looked
through the keyhole, and could see nothing.
"Pierrette," she said, "are you ill?"
"No, cousin," said Pierrette, surprised.
"Why is your candle burning at this time of night? Open the door; I
must know what this means."
Pierrette went to the door bare-footed, and as soon as Sylvie entered
the room she saw the cord, which Pierrette had forgotten to put away,
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