| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: which brought on the American social revolution. Ben Hampton had
bought the old derelict "Broadway Magazine", with twelve thousand
subscribers, and in four years, by the simple process of straight
truth-telling, had built up for it a circulation of 440,000. In
two years more he would have had a million; but in May, 1911, he
announced a series of articles dealing with the New Haven
management.
The articles, written by Charles Edward Russell, were so exact
that they read today like the reports of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, dated three years later. A representative of the New
Haven called upon the editor of Hampton's with a proof of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: But deep in thine eyes
Stirs a more wonderful secret
Than pools ever learn of the starlight.
THE JESTERS
A TOAST to the Fools!
Pierrot, Pantaloon,
Harlequin, Clown,
Merry-Andrew, Buffoon--
Touchstone and Triboulet--all of the tribe.--
Dancer and jester and singer and scribe.
We sigh over Yorick--(unfortunate fool,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: "but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,
for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest."
"If they are not better," put in Jerry, "it is because
they are not religious. You might as well say that our country's laws
are not good because some people break them. If a man gives way
to his temper, and speaks evil of his neighbor, and does not pay his debts,
he is not religious, I don't care how much he goes to church.
If some men are shams and humbugs, that does not make religion untrue.
Real religion is the best and truest thing in the world, and the only thing
that can make a man really happy or make the world we live in any better."
"If religion was good for anything," said Jones, "it would prevent
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