The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: National Liberal Club. Heaven knows who our host was or what
that particular little "feed" was about now!--all that sticks is
the impression of our straggling entry, a string of six or seven
guests, and my uncle looking about him at the numerous bright
red-shaded tables, at the exotics in great Majolica jars, at the
shining ceramic columns and pilasters, at the impressive
portraits of Liberal statesmen and heroes, and all that
contributes to the ensemble of that palatial spectacle. He was
betrayed into a whisper to me, "This is all Right, George!" he
said. That artless comment seems almost incredible as I set it
down; there came a time so speedily when not even the clubs of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: confederations. In studying the constitutions of these different
countries, the politician is surprised to observe that the powers
with which they invested the Federal Government are nearly
identical with the privileges awarded by the American
Constitution to the Government of the United States. They confer
upon the central power the same rights of making peace and war,
of raising money and troops, and of providing for the general
exigencies and the common interests of the nation. Nevertheless
the Federal Government of these different peoples has always been
as remarkable for its weakness and inefficiency as that of the
Union is for its vigorous and enterprising spirit. Again, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: and country, and how usual it was to be scrofulous,
when not dead, you would understand that the annual
king's-evil appropriation was just the River and Harbor
bill of that government for the grip it took on the
treasury and the chance it afforded for skinning the
surplus. So I had privately concluded to touch the
treasury itself for the king's-evil. I covered six-
sevenths of the appropriation into the treasury a week
before starting from Camelot on my adventures, and
ordered that the other seventh be inflated into five-
cent nickels and delivered into the hands of the head
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