| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: demanded for the bourgeoisie the lion's share of the government. As to
how this transformation was to be accomplished, the party was far from
being clear. What, however, was clear as day to it and was openly
declared at the reform banquets during the last days of Louis Philippe's
reign, was its unpopularity with the democratic middle class, especially
with the revolutionary proletariat. These pure republicans, as pure
republicans go, were at first on the very point of contenting themselves
with the regency of the Duchess of Orleans, when the February revolution
broke out, and when it gave their best known representatives a place in
the provisional government. Of course, they enjoyed from the start the
confidence of the bourgeoisie and of the majority of the Constitutional
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "She's a rare organisation," the younger man sighed.
"The richest I've ever seen - an artistic intelligence really of
the first order. And lodged in such a form!" St. George exclaimed.
"One would like to represent such a girl as that," Paul continued.
"Ah there it is - there's nothing like life!" said his companion.
"When you're finished, squeezed dry and used up and you think the
sack's empty, you're still appealed to, you still get touches and
thrills, the idea springs up - out of the lap of the actual - and
shows you there's always something to be done. But I shan't do it
- she's not for me!"
"How do you mean, not for you?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: happened to the gentleman who had dealt the stab. It said a
great deal for the excellence of the municipal arrangement of the
town that a surging crowd did not at once block the street to see
what was going for-ward. I was the sixth man and the last who
assisted at the performance, and my curiosity was six times the
greatest. Indeed, I felt ashamed of showing it.
There were no more incidents till I reached the Palace Hotel, a
seven-storied warren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it.
All the travel books will tell you about hotel arrangements in
this country. They should be seen to be appreciated. Understand
clearly--and this letter is written after a thousand miles of
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