| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: here; whilst in the backwoods the true elements of the great
people to whom the future control of the continent belongs are
gathering almost in secrecy together.
When the Europeans first landed on the shores of the West
Indies, and afterwards on the coast of South America, they
thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of
which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light,
and the extraordinary transparency of its waters discovered to
the view of the navigator all that had hitherto been hidden in
the deep abyss. *e Here and there appeared little islands
perfumed with odoriferous plants, and resembling baskets of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: against it as a deadly competitor in the person of Louis Bonaparte. The
fought the aristocracy of finance just the same as did the rest of the
bourgeois opposition. The polemic against the budget, which in France,
was closely connected with the opposition to the aristocracy of finance,
furnished too cheap a popularity and too rich a material for Puritanical
leading articles, not to be exploited. The industrial bourgeoisie was
thankful to it for its servile defense of the French tariff system,
which, however, the paper had taken up , more out of patriotic than
economic reasons the whole bourgeois class was thankful to it for its
vicious denunciations of Communism and Socialism For the rest, the party
of the "National" was purely republican, i.e. it demanded a republican
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: There was but one thing to do, make camp where they
were until daylight. Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a
clearing made and a circular abatis of underbrush constructed
about the camp.
This work was not completed until long after dark, the
men building a huge fire in the center of the clearing to give
them light to work by.
When all was safe as possible against attack of wild beasts
and savage men, Lieutenant Charpentier placed sentries
about the little camp and the tired and hungry men threw
themselves upon the ground to sleep.
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