| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: has been concealed.
"That treasure has been hidden," he went on, "in the region
through which you came last night, there can be but little doubt.
For it was the ground fought over for centuries by the Wallachian,
the Saxon, and the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil
in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men,
patriots or invaders. In the old days there were stirring times,
when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots
went out to meet them, men and women, the aged and the children too,
and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they
might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: endow with strength and courage the knight who was to fight his
adversary on behalf of the captives. Very early, before prime
had yet been sounded, both of the knights fully armed were led to
the place, mounted upon two horses equally protected. Meleagant
was very graceful, alert, and shapely; the hauberk with its fine
meshes, the helmet, and the shield hanging from his neck--all
these became him well. All the spectators. however, favoured the
other knight, even those who wished him ill, and they say that
Meleagant is worth nothing compared with him. As soon as they
were both on the ground, the king comes and detains them as long
as possible in an effort to make peace between them, but he is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: and poor, learned and ignorant, are equal before the electoral
urn. The minister elbows the least of his servants, and during
this brief moment the power of one is as great as the others.
All Governments, including that of the Revolution, have feared
universal suffrage. At a first glance, indeed, the objections
which suggests themselves are numerous. The idea that the
multitude could usefully choose the men capable of governing,
that individuals of indifferent morality, feeble knowledge, and
narrow minds should possess, by the sole fact of number, a
certain talent for judging the candidate proposed for its
selection is surely a shocking one.
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