| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: were trained under a good government, and for this reason they were good,
and our contemporaries are also good, among whom our departed friends are
to be reckoned. Then as now, and indeed always, from that time to this,
speaking generally, our government was an aristocracy--a form of government
which receives various names, according to the fancies of men, and is
sometimes called democracy, but is really an aristocracy or government of
the best which has the approval of the many. For kings we have always had,
first hereditary and then elected, and authority is mostly in the hands of
the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear to be most
deserving of them. Neither is a man rejected from weakness or poverty or
obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: as if the devil had been at his heels; and the only
thing that brought him down was a letter--a hoax
probably. Some joker had written to him about a
seafaring man with some such name who was sup-
posed to be hanging about some girl or other, either
in Colebrook or in the neighbourhood. "Funny,
ain't it?" The old chap had been advertising in
the London papers for Harry Hagberd, and offer-
ing rewards for any sort of likely information.
And the barber would go on to describe with sar-
donic gusto, how that stranger in mourning had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "What wild words be these, Henry de Montfort?
Your sister! What mean you?"
"Yes, my sister Bertrade whom you stole upon the
highroad two days since, after murdering the knights
of John de Stutevill who were fetching her home from a
visit upon the Baron's daughter. We know that it was
you for the foreheads of the dead men bore your devil's
mark."
"Shandy!" roared Norman of Torn. "WHAT MEANS THIS?
Who has been upon the road, attacking women, in my
absence? You were here and in charge during my visit
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