| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: of money. Of course if it comes to souls, my mother's the best person I've
ever seen. But what does it help her? She's got to stand washing clothes
for those stuck-up nincompoops of fine ladies! Wait till I've got money!
It'll be somebody else then, who--"
"Peter Halket," said the stranger, "who is the greatest; he who serves or
he who is served?" Peter looked at the stranger: then it flashed on him
that he was mad.
"Oh," he said, "if it comes to that, what's anything! You might as well
say, sitting there in your old linen shirt, that you were as great as
Rhodes or Beit or Barnato, or a king. Of course a man's just the same
whatever he's got on or whatever he has; but he isn't the same to other
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: "Parts, especially upper parts, seem to be of lighter-colored
rock than any visible strata on slopes proper, hence of evidently
crystalline origin. Close flying shows many cave mouths, some
unusually regular in outline, square or semicircular. You must
come and investigate. Think I saw rampart squarely on top of one
peak. Height seems about thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand
feet. Am up twenty-one thousand, five hundred myself, in devilish,
gnawing cold. Wind whistles and pipes through passes and in and
out of caves, but no flying danger so far."
From then on for
another half hour Lake kept up a running fire of comment, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. . . ." *k Here
follow clauses establishing schools in every township, and
obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support
them. Schools of a superior kind were founded in the same manner
in the more populous districts. The municipal authorities were
bound to enforce the sending of children to school by their
parents; they were empowered to inflict fines upon all who
refused compliance; and in case of continued resistance society
assumed the place of the parent, took possession of the child,
and deprived the father of those natural rights which he used to
so bad a purpose. The reader will undoubtedly have remarked the
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