| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: a sea-gull, away and out to sea.
PART IV - HOW PERSEUS CAME TO THE AETHIOPS
SO Perseus flitted onward to the north-east, over many a
league of sea, till he came to the rolling sand-hills and the
dreary Lybian shore.
And he flitted on across the desert: over rock-ledges, and
banks of shingle, and level wastes of sand, and shell-drifts
bleaching in the sunshine, and the skeletons of great sea-
monsters, and dead bones of ancient giants, strewn up and
down upon the old sea-floor. And as he went the blood-drops
fell to the earth from the Gorgon's head, and became
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: That's more than I know.
SEGASTO.
But doest thou remember the captain, that was
here with the king even now, that brought the
young prince prisoner?
MOUSE.
O, very well.
SEGASTO.
Go unto him and bid him come to me. Tell him
I have a matter in secret to impart to him.
MOUSE.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: and every political physician will advise a different medicine.
I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices,
yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the
English constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two
ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials.
FIRST - The remains of monarchial tyranny in the person of the king.
SECONDLY - The remains of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers.
THIRDLY - The new republican materials in the persons of the commons,
on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.
The two first, by being hereditary, are independent of the people;
wherefore in a CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE they contribute nothing towards
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