| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The relations just discussed,--namely, low and slowly-changing organisms
ranging more widely than the high,--some of the species of widely-ranging
genera themselves ranging widely,--such facts, as alpine, lacustrine, and
marsh productions being related (with the exceptions before specified) to
those on the surrounding low lands and dry lands, though these stations are
so different--the very close relation of the distinct species which inhabit
the islets of the same archipelago,--and especially the striking relation
of the inhabitants of each whole archipelago or island to those of the
nearest mainland,--are, I think, utterly inexplicable on the ordinary view
of the independent creation of each species, but are explicable on the view
of colonisation from the nearest and readiest source, together with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [putting on Sir Humphrey's brigandine];
and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse heels till I do come
to London, where we will have the mayor's sword borne before us.
DICK.
If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the gaols and
let out the prisoners.
CADE.
Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march towards
London.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE IV. London. The Palace.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: serve and be useful to others in all that he does; having nothing
before his eyes but the necessities and the advantage of his
neighbour. Thus the Apostle commands us to work with our own
hands, that we may have to give to those that need. He might have
said, that we may support ourselves; but he tells us to give to
those that need. It is the part of a Christian to take care of
his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and
well-being, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and
preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that
thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may
be children of God, thoughtful and busy one for another, bearing
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