| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: 3. Illusions respecting the Theoretical Value of the great
Revolutionary Principles
BOOK II
THE RATIONAL, AFFECTIVE, MYSTIC, AND COLLECTIVE INFLUENCES ACTIVE
DURING THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
1. Psychological influences active during the French
Revolution
2. Dissolution of the Ancien Regime. The assembling of
the States General
3. The constituent Assembly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: tone in which she said "Of course you always knew my one passion!"
She obviously met now, at any rate, a big contemporary need,
measured what it was rapidly becoming for people to feel they could
trust her without a tremor. It brought them a peace that--during
the quarter of an hour before dinner in especial--was worth more to
them than mere payment could express. Mere payment, none the less,
was tolerably prompt; she engaged by the month, taking over the
whole thing; and there was an evening on which, in respect to our
heroine, she at last returned to the charge. "It's growing and
growing, and I see that I must really divide the work. One wants
an associate--of one's own kind, don't you know? You know the look
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: prisoner would induce you to withdraw.'
There was some paper on the table, and Otto, sitting down, wrote a
passport in the name of Sir John Crabtree.
'Affix the seal, Herr Cancellarius,' he said, in his most princely
manner, as he rose.
Greisengesang produced a red portfolio, and affixed the seal in the
unpoetic guise of an adhesive stamp; nor did his perturbed and
clumsy movements at all lessen the comedy of the performance. Sir
John looked on with a malign enjoyment; and Otto chafed, regretting,
when too late, the unnecessary royalty of his command and gesture.
But at length the Chancellor had finished his piece of
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