| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Existence Of The Township
Every one the best judge of his own interest - Corollary of the
principle of the sovereignty of the people - Application of those
doctrines in the townships of America - The township of New
England is sovereign in all that concerns itself alone: subject
to the State in all other matters - Bond of the township and the
State - In France the Government lends its agent to the Commune -
In America the reverse occurs.
I have already observed that the principle of the
sovereignty of the people governs the whole political system of
the Anglo- Americans. Every page of this book will afford new
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: MISTRESS BANISTER.
Sir, my brother is his steward; if you please,
We'll go along and bear you company:
I know we shall not want for welcome there.
FRISKIBALL.
With all my heart: but what's become of Bagot?
BANISTER.
He is hanged, for buying jewels of the King's.
FRISKIBALL.
A just reward for one so impious.
The time draws on, sir; will you go along?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: it ....
Ah, Nick had become perpendicular! .... After all, most people
went through life making a given set of gestures, like dance-
steps learned in advance. If your dancing manual told you at a
given time to be perpendicular, you had to be, automatically--
and that was Nick!
"But what on earth, Susy," Gillow's puzzled voice suddenly came
to her as from immeasurable distances, "Are you going to do in
this beastly stifling hole for the rest of the summer?"
"Ask Nick, my dear fellow," Strefford answered for her; and:
"By the way, where is Nick--if one may ask?" young Breckenridge
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