| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: easy; it is like making up your mind to have different colored eyes
and hair, and I can only get sunburnt and wear a full beard. But
we are hardly as unhappy as we feared to be; mother came the other
night, in a dream, and took us on her knees. Oh, come to me,
Jonathan, but for one day! No, you will not find me; I am going
across the Plains!"
And Jonathan and Ruth? They loved each other tenderly; no external
trouble visited them; their home was peaceful and pure; and
yet, every room and stairway and chair was haunted by a sorrowful
ghost. As a neighbor said after visiting them, "There seemed to be
something lost." Ruth saw how constantly and how unconsciously
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: To-day Europe supports 81 to the square mile. The explanation of
this is that for the several centuries after the Norman Conquest
her population was saturated. Then, with the development of
trading and capitalism, of exploration and exploitation of new
lands, and with the invention of labour-saving machinery and the
discovery and application of scientific principles, was brought
about a tremendous increase in Europe's food-getting efficiency.
And immediately her population sprang up.
According to the census of Ireland, of 1659, that country had a
population of 500,000. One hundred and fifty years later, her
population was 8,000,000. For many centuries the population of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: or decapitates as he thinks fit, and in his own district he is a
''pasha.''
Regarding themselves as ``pashas,'' they displayed themselves
``drawn in carriages with six horses, surrounded by guards;
sitting at sumptuous tables with thirty covers, eating to the
sound of music, with a following of players, courtezans, and
mercenaries. . . .'' At Lyons ``the solemn appearance of Collot
d'Herbois is like that of the Grand Turk. No one can come into
his presence without three repeated requests; a string of
apartments precedes his reception-room, and no one approaches
nearer than fifteen paces.''
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