| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: would have given their lives for him. Great might have been his
place in history had his character been at all on a level with
his legendary reputation.
It is thus a very useless commonplace to assert that a religion
is necessary for the masses, because all political, divine, and
social creeds only take root among them on the condition of
always assuming the religious shape--a shape which obviates the
danger of discussion. Were it possible to induce the masses to
adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant
ardour of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would
soon become a cult. The evolution of the small Positivist sect
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: yet to be encountered. The snow still drifted hard against the
windows, and sometimes, as the blaze of the logs had gradually
sunk, came down the spacious chimney and hissed upon the hearth.
A cautious footstep might now and then be heard in a neighboring
apartment, and the sound invariably drew the eyes of both Quakers
to the door which led thither. When a fierce and riotous gust of
wind had led his thoughts, by a natural association, to homeless
travellers on such a night, Pearson resumed the conversation.
"I have well-nigh sunk under my own share of this trial,"
observed he, sighing heavily; "yet I would that it might be
doubled to me, if so the child's mother could be spared. Her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: life of hardship.
So that in all this circle only Mary Pavlovna and Kondratieff
were quite free from love affairs.
CHAPTER XIV.
CONVERSATIONS IN PRISON.
Expecting to have a private talk with Katusha, as usual, after
tea, Nekhludoff sat by the side of Kryltzoff, conversing with
him. Among other things he told him the story of Makar's crime
and about his request to him. Kryltzoff listened attentively,
gazing at Nekhludoff with glistening eyes.
"Yes," said Kryltzoff suddenly, "I often think that here we are
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