| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: say, that I look upon you as a woman of sense and education
beyond your appearance, and that I hope you will continue to
reside on this property of mine rent-free for your life."
"I hope I shall," said the old dame, composedly; "I believe that
was made an article in the sale of Ravenswood to your lordship,
though such a trifling circumstance may have escaped your
recollection."
"I remember--I recollect," said his lordship, somewhat confused.
"I perceive you are too much attached to your old friends to
accept any benefit from their successor."
"Far from it, my lord; I am grateful for the benefits which I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: economy be imperfect, often chimerical, it is because the mind of
one man must needs have been too weak to bring into shape and order
the chaos, social and economic, which he saw around him. M. de
Lamartine, in his brilliant little life of Fenelon, does not
hesitate to trace to the influence of "Telemaque," the Utopias which
produced the revolutions of 1793 and 1848. "The saintly poet was,"
he says, "without knowing it, the first Radical and the first
communist of his century." But it is something to have preached to
princes doctrines till then unknown, or at least forgotten for many
a generation--free trade, peace, international arbitration, and the
"carriere ouverte aux talents" for all ranks. It is something to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: perpetuate his. His courage, if courage it might be called, was
bred of fanaticism. The courage of Stockard and Bill was the
adherence to deep-rooted ideals. Not that the love of life was
less, but the love of race tradition more; not that they were
unafraid to die, but that they were brave enough not to live at
the price of shame.
The missionary rose, for the moment swayed by the mood of
sacrifice. He half crawled over the barricade to proceed to the
other camp, but sank back, a trembling mass, wailing: "As the
spirit moves! As the spirit moves! Who am I that I should set
aside the judgments of God? Before the foundations of the world
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