| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: name, Lajos Varna," explained the doctor turning to his guest. "He
is the 302nd patient who has been received here in these twenty
years. Then Cardillac is quiet again?" he asked, looking up at the
young giant. "I am glad of that. You can announce our visit to
him. This gentleman wants to inspect the asylum."
Muller realised that this was the attendant Gyuri, and he looked at
him attentively. He was soon clear in his own mind that this
remarkably handsome man did not please him, in fact awoke in him a
feeling of repulsion. The attendant's quiet, almost cat-like
movements were in strange contrast to the massivity of his superb
frame, and his large round eyes, shaped for open, honest glances,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: duty would not permit it: "But I am ready to confess that my
feelings as a man suffer by the duty imposed on me as a
magistrate. On one occasion, at the outset of my career, it fell
to my lot to ask from a jury the head of a woman. I felt then
the same kind of distress of mind I feel to-day. The jury
rejected my demand; they accorded extenuating circumstances;
though defeated, I left the court a happier man. What are you
going to do to-day, gentlemen? It rests with you. What I cannot
ask of you, you have the right to accord. But when the supreme
moment comes to return your verdict, remember that you have sworn
to judge firmly and fearlessly." The jury accorded extenuating
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the
shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the
bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions
of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but
conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to
roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are
revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending
transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their
present, but their future interests, they desert their own
standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting
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