| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: than all to break up the superstitions of the Ancien Regime, and to
set man face to face with the facts of the universe. From England,
towards the end of the seventeenth century, it was promulgated by
such men as Newton, Boyle, Sydenham, Ray, and the first founders of
our Royal Society.
In England, too, arose the great religious movements of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--and especially that of a body
which I can never mention without most deep respect--the Society of
Friends. At a time when the greater part of the Continent was sunk
in spiritual sleep, these men were reasserting doctrines concerning
man, and his relation to his Creator, which, whether or not all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: the one hundred thousand. The disease is serious, nothing more."
"You admit that it is a serious disease?" argued George.
"Yes."
"One of the most serious?"
"Yes, but you have the good fortune--"
"The GOOD fortune?"
"Relatively, if you please. You have the good fortune to be
infected with one of the diseases over which we have the most
certain control."
"Yes, yes," exclaimed George, "but the remedies are worse than
the disease."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: 3 The Great Eyrie
4 A Meeting of the Automobile Club
5 Along the Shores of New England
6 The First Letter
7 A Third Machine
8 At Any Cost
9 The Second Letter
10 Outside the Law
11 The Campaign
12 Black Rock Creek
13 On Board the Terror
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