| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: plan would be pleasanter to them, as a change if nothing more, and
much better for us than buying or borrowing what we don't need, and
attempting a style not in keeping with our circumstances?"
"If I can't have it as I like, I don't care to have it at all.
I know that I can carry it out perfectly well, if you and the girls
will help a little, and I don't see why I can't if I'm willing to pay
for it," said Amy, with the decision which opposition was apt to
change into obstinacy.
Mrs. March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and
when it was possible she left her children to learn alone the lessons
which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: for large forms into which the prevalent impulse to devotion can
be thrown. But the organised religious bodies, with their creeds
and badges and their instinct for self-preservation at any cost,
stand between men and their spiritual growth in just the same way
the forestallers stand between men and food. Their activities at
present are an almost intolerable nuisance. One cannot say "God"
but some tout is instantly seeking to pluck one into his
particular cave of flummery and orthodoxy. What a rational man
means by God is just God. The more you define and argue about
God the more he remains the same simple thing. Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, modern Hindu religious thought, all agree in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: farmers and millers, shall pass through our forest dominions
without let or molestation.
"II. All other travellers through the forest shall be graciously invited
to partake of Robin's hospitality; and if they come not willingly they
shall be compelled; and the rich man shall pay well for his fare;
and the poor man shall feast scot free, and peradventure receive bounty
in proportion to his desert and necessity.
"The article of Chivalry is one:
"I. Every forester shall, to the extent of his power, aid and protect maids,
widows, and orphans, and all weak and distressed persons whomsoever:
and no woman shall be impeded or molested in any way; nor shall any company
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