| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: A-Kor lies now in the pits of O-Tar, and E-Med is dwar of the
Towers."
Tara of Helium saw the face of the slave girl pale and the terror
in her eyes.
CHAPTER XII
GHEK PLAYS PRANKS
WHILE Tara of Helium was being led to The Towers of Jetan, Ghek
was escorted to the pits beneath the palace where he was
imprisoned in a dimly-lighted chamber. Here he found a bench and
a table standing upon the dirt floor near the wall, and set in
the wall several rings from which depended short lengths of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And while your eye upon the cuts
With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage lessons not be blind.
Poem: II
Reader, your soul upraise to see,
In yon fair cut designed by me,
The pauper by the highwayside
Vainly soliciting from pride.
Mark how the Beau with easy air
Contemns the anxious rustic's prayer,
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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: influence, which is at all times available. If the power is
decreased, it can, on the other hand, be more conveniently
employed and more easily abused. By preventing political
tribunals from inflicting judicial punishments the Americans seem
to have eluded the worst consequences of legislative tyranny,
rather than tyranny itself; and I am not sure that political
jurisdiction, as it is constituted in the United States, is not
the most formidable weapon which has ever been placed in the rude
grasp of a popular majority. When the American republics begin
to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this
observation, by remarking whether the number of political
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