| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the messenger with voluble excuses and engagements for the future.
He was told his explanations were satisfactory so far as they went,
but that the admiral's message was to Tamasese, the DE FACTO king.
Brandeis, not very well assured of his puppet's courage, attempted
in vain to excuse him from appearing. No DE FACTO king, no
message, he was told: produce your DE FACTO king. And Tamasese
had at last to be produced. To him Kane delivered his errand:
that the LIZARD was to remain for the protection of British
subjects; that a signalman was to be stationed at the consulate;
that, on any further firing from boats, the signalman was to notify
the LIZARD and she to fire one gun, on which all boats must lower
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: project of conscious public reconstruction at which I aimed. I
wanted to build up a new educational machine altogether for the
governing class out of a consolidated system of special public
service schools. I meant to get to work upon this whatever office I
was given in the new government. I could have begun my plan from
the Admiralty or the War Office quite as easily as from the
Education Office. I am firmly convinced it is hopeless to think of
reforming the old public schools and universities to meet the needs
of a modern state, they send their roots too deep and far, the cost
would exceed any good that could possibly be effected, and so I have
sought a way round this invincible obstacle. I do think it would be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: above which the witch-doctor had made magical passes
the while he danced and leaped about it, and he saw
the breasts and foreheads of each of the three novitiates
sprinkled with the charmed liquid. Could the ape-man
have known the purpose of this act, that it was intended
to render the recipient invulnerable to the attacks
of his enemies and fearless in the face of any danger,
he would doubtless have leaped into the village street
and appropriated the zebra's tail and a portion of the
contents of the caldron.
But he did not know, and so he only wondered, not alone
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