| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: contemplated before. No doubt these Modern State ideas were very
largely the reflection upon social and political thought of the
vast revolution in material things that had been in progress for
two hundred years, but for a long time they seemed to be having
no more influence upon existing institutions than the writings of
Rousseau and Voltaire seemed to have had at the time of the death
of the latter. They were fermenting in men's minds, and it needed
only just such social and political stresses as the coming of the
atomic mechanisms brought about, to thrust them forward abruptly
into crude and startling realisation.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the ground; and he was already on the point of angry
resignation, when the window swung slowly inward, the silken
curtain was thrust aside, and a lady, somewhat strangely
attired, stepped forth upon the terrace.
'Senorito,' said she, and there was a rich thrill in her
voice, like an organ note, 'Senorito, you are in
difficulties. Suffer me to come to your assistance.'
With the words, she took the paper and tobacco from his
unresisting hands; and with a facility that, in Desborough's
eyes, seemed magical, rolled and presented him a cigarette.
He took it, still seated, still without a word; staring with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: CRITIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And since medicine frees the sick man from his disease, that art
too may sometimes appear useful in the acquisition of virtue, e.g. when
hearing is procured by the aid of medicine.
CRITIAS: Very likely.
SOCRATES: But if, again, we obtain by wealth the aid of medicine, shall we
not regard wealth as useful for virtue?
CRITIAS: True.
SOCRATES: And also the instruments by which wealth is procured?
CRITIAS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Then you think that a man may gain wealth by bad and disgraceful
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