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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath
of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: three kept up the traditions of the Regency, filling cleverer
women with something like disgust. The great lady of the new
school exercised no influence at all over the manners of the
time; and yet she might have done much. She might, at worst,
have presented as dignified a spectacle as English-women of the
same rank. But she hesitated feebly among old precedents, became
a bigot by force of circumstances, and allowed nothing of herself
to appear, not even her better qualities.
Not one among the Frenchwomen of that day had the ability to
create a salon whither leaders of fashion might come to take
lessons in taste and elegance. Their voices, which once laid
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: did not know their nature. A huge spout shot up. and at the same
moment the hills began to crack and break. Great masses of loose
soil were erupted from their bowels, and in the next period of
quietness, he saw that the landscape had altered. Still the
mysterious light intensified. The moon disappeared entirely. The
noise of the unseen tempest was terrifying, but Maskull played
heroically on, trying to urge out ideas which would take shape. The
hillsides were cleft with chasms. The water escaping from the tops
of the spouts, swamped the land; but where he was, it was dry.
The radiance grew terrible. It was everywhere, but Maskull fancied
that it was far brighter in one particular quarter. He thought that
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