| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: up, he reached Posen, and there either met or heard of the Polish
Count, Ladislas Kasincsky, who was seeking a tutor for his only
son. His accomplishments, and perhaps, also, a certain
aristocratic grace of manner unconsciously caught from the Baron
von Herisau, speedily won for him the favor of the Count and
Countess Kasincsky, and emboldened him to hope for the hand of the
Countess' sister, Helmine ----, to whom he was no doubt sincerely
attached. Here Johann Helm, or "Jean," a confidential servant of
the Count, who looked upon the new tutor as a rival, yet adroitly
flattered his vanity for the purpose of misleading and displacing
him, appears upon the stage. "Jean" first detected Otto's passion;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: altogether sceptical, but I wasn't so decided. I think I was
drawn by its picturesque aspects. But we neither of us dreamt of
touching it seriously until Capern's discovery.
Nasmyth's story had laid hold of my imagination like one small,
intense picture of tropical sunshine hung on a wall of grey
business affairs. I kept it going during Gordon-Nasmyth's
intermittent appearances in England. Every now and then he and I
would meet and reinforce its effect. We would lunch in London,
or he would cone to see my gliders at Crest Hill, and make new
projects for getting at those heaps again now with me, now alone.
At times they became a sort of fairy-story with us, an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: been used to secure the interests of that political state of
things to which he belonged. At other times Catholics have taken
the side of aristocracy from a spirit of religion.
But no sooner is the priesthood entirely separated from the
government, as is the case in the United States, than is found
that no class of men are more naturally disposed than the
Catholics to transfuse the doctrine of the equality of conditions
into the political world. If, then, the Catholic citizens of the
United States are not forcibly led by the nature of their tenets
to adopt democratic and republican principles, at least they are
not necessarily opposed to them; and their social position, as
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