| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: objective knowledge of all the creeds and Churches. Just as a child,
no matter what its race and color may be, should know that there are
black men and brown men and yellow men, and, no matter what its
political convictions may be, that there are Monarchists and
Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should
know that there are Christians and Mahometans and Buddhists and
Shintoists and so forth, and that they are on the average just as
honest and well-behaved as its own father. For example, it should not
be told that Allah is a false god set up by the Turks and Arabs, who
will all be damned for taking that liberty; but it should be told that
many English people think so, and that many Turks and Arabs think the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: eas causas ei munitioni quam fecerat T. Labienum legatum praeficit; ipse
in Italiam magnis itineribus contendit duasque ibi legiones conscribit et
tres, quae circum Aquileiam hiemabant, ex hibernis educit et, qua proximum
iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes erat, cum his quinque legionibus ire
contendit. Ibi Ceutrones et Graioceli et Caturiges locis superioribus
occupatis itinere exercitum prohibere conantur. Compluribus his proeliis
pulsis ab Ocelo, quod est citerioris provinciae extremum, in
fines Vocontiorum ulterioris provinciae die septimo pervenit; inde in
Allobrogum fines, ab Allobrogibus in Segusiavos exercitum ducit. Hi sunt
extra provinciam trans Rhodanum primi.
Helvetii iam per angustias et fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: which the old NOBLESSE of France viewed all those who had helped to
contribute to their downfall. Armand St. Just, the brother of
beautiful Lady Blakeney--though known to hold moderate and
conciliatory views--was an ardent republican; his feud with the
ancient family of St. Cyr--the rights and wrongs of which no outsider
ever knew--had culminated in the downfall, the almost total extinction
of the latter. In France, St. Just and his party had triumphed, and
here in England, face to face with these three refugees driven from
their country, flying for their lives, bereft of all which centuries
of luxury had given them, there stood a fair scion of those same
republican families which had hurled down a throne, and uprooted an
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