| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: whenever it was emptied of its money it instantly became full
again. "The Tailor of Tailors, the Master of Masters, and One
Greater than a King sends your majesty this goblet, and bids me,
his ambassador, to ask for your daughter," said the young man.
When the king saw what had been sent him he was filled with
amazement. "Surely," said he to himself, "there can be no end to
the power of one who can give such a gift as this." Then to the
messenger, "Tell your master that he shall have my daughter for
his wife if he will build over yonder a palace such as no man
ever saw or no king ever lived in before."
"It shall be done," said the young man, and then they all went
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: your own courtyard, which proves that you have long shown ill-will to
the possessor of Gondreville. Besides, you were at the gate of the
/rond-point/, apparently on the watch, about the time when the
abduction took place; if they have not arrested you, it is solely
because they fear to bring a sentimental element into the affair."
"The case cannot be successfully defended," said Monsieur de
Grandville.
"The less so," continued Bordin, "because we cannot tell the whole
truth. Michu and the Messieurs de Simeuse and d'Hauteserre must hold
to the assertion that you merely went for an excursion into the forest
and returned to Cinq-Cygne for luncheon. Allowing that we can show you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: and every form of life, which any race, except the old Roman, ever
has had in the world; if they consider with me that it is worth
the while of political economists and social philosophers to look
at the map, and see that about four-fifths of the globe cannot be
said as yet to be in anywise inhabited or cultivated, or in the
state into which men could put it by a fair supply of population,
and industry, and human intellect: then, perhaps, they may think
with me that it is a duty, one of the noblest of duties, to help
the increase of the English race as much as possible, and to see
that every child that is born into this great nation of England be
developed to the highest pitch to which we can develop him in
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