| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal
truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours
of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail,
by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.
By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people
have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief;
and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little
to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain
their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of
wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government
in the short space of four years.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'Are you all out?' asked one of his companions; and, as soon
as he had babbled an answer in the affirmative, the rope was
cut from the top round, and the ladder thrust roughly back
into the garden, where it fell and broke with clattering
reverberations. Its fall was hailed with many broken cries;
for the whole of Richard Street was now in high emotion, the
people crowding to the windows or clambering on the garden
walls. The same man who had already addressed Challoner
seized him by the arm; whisked him through the basement of
the house and across the street upon the other side; and
before the unfortunate adventurer had time to realise his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the
trees. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved
Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain. And like
blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the
Under-world. I understood now what all the beauty of the Over-
world people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant
as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they
knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end
was the same.
`I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect
had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself
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