| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: excited at the thought of living.
"I can by m-m-myself," she stammered, "in spite of you, in spite
of the Dalloways, and Mr. Pepper, and Father, and my Aunts, in spite
of these?" She swept her hand across a whole page of statesmen
and soldiers.
"In spite of them all," said Helen gravely. She then put down her needle,
and explained a plan which had come into her head as they talked.
Instead of wandering on down the Amazons until she reached some
sulphurous tropical port, where one had to lie within doors all day
beating off insects with a fan, the sensible thing to do surely
was to spend the season with them in their villa by the seaside,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: voluit, cum intellegerent et posse et audere populi Romani exercitum
Rhenum transire. Accessit etiam quod illa pars equitatus Usipetum et
Tencterorum, quam supra commemoravi praedandi frumentandi causa Mosam
transisse neque proelio interfuisse, post fugam suorum se trans Rhenum in
fines Sugambrorum receperat seque cum his coniunxerat. Ad quos cum Caesar
nuntios misisset, qui postularent eos qui sibi Galliae bellum intulissent
sibi dederent, responderunt: populi Romani imperium Rhenum finire; si se
invito Germanos in Galliam transire non aequum existimaret, cur sui
quicquam esse imperii aut potestatis trans Rhenum postularet? Ubii autem,
qui uni ex Transrhenanis ad Caesarem legatos miserant, amicitiam fecerant,
obsides dederant, magnopere orabant ut sibi auxilium ferret, quod graviter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: for a franker and fairer treatment of labour. But why does it
call for these things? Does it call for them because they are
right? Because in accomplishing them one serves God?
Not at all. But because otherwise this strange sprawling empire
of ours will drop back into a secondary place in the world.
These two writers really seem to think that the slack workman,
the slacker wealthy man, the negligent official, the conservative
schoolmaster, the greedy usurer, the comfortable obstructive,
confronted with this alternative, terrified at this idea of
something or other called the Empire being "eclipsed," eager for
the continuance of this undefined glory over their fellow-
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