| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: ever the farther to walk among unpleasant sights, before
we gain the country air. If the population of Edinburgh
were a living, autonomous body, it would arise like one
man and make night hideous with arson; the builders and
their accomplices would be driven to work, like the Jews
of yore, with the trowel in one hand and the defensive
cutlass in the other; and as soon as one of these masonic
wonders had been consummated, right-minded iconoclasts
should fall thereon and make an end of it at once.
Possibly these words may meet the eye of a builder
or two. It is no use asking them to employ an architect;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: seemed not to be flat before us, but as if
it were leaping up to meet us, and we waited
for the earth to rise and strike us in the
face. But we ran. We knew not where we
were going. We knew only that we must
run, run to the end of the world,
to the end of our days.
Then we knew suddenly that we were lying
on a soft earth and that we had stopped.
Trees taller than we had ever seen
before stood over us in great silence.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: oligarchy and a relatively lesser civil body under it. This
antagonism is the oddest outcome of the tremendous /de-
militarisation/ of war that has been going on. In France it
is probably not so marked because of the greater flexibility and
adaptability of the French culture.
All military people--people, that is, professionally and
primarily military--are inclined to be conservative. For
thousands of years the military tradition has been a tradition of
discipline. The conception of the common soldier has been a
mechanically obedient, almost dehumanised man, of the of officer
a highly trained autocrat. In two years all this has been
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