| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Justice inspired the one; the other was the child of simple envy.
But this passion of envy, if it becomes permanent and popular, may
avenge itself, like all other sins. A nation may say to itself,
"Provided we have no superiors to fall our pride, we are content.
Liberty is a slight matter, provided we have equality. Let us be
slaves, provided we are all slaves alike." It may destroy every
standard of humanity above its own mean average; it may forget that
the old ruling class, in spite of all its defects and crimes, did at
least pretend to represent something higher than man's necessary
wants, plus the greed of amassing money; never meeting (at least in
the country districts) any one wiser or more refined than an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: turn inwards his elbows, extend outwards his hands and open the palms;
with the eyebrows raised?
(14) Do the children when sulky, pout or greatly protrude the lips?
(15.) Can guilty, or sly, or jealous expressions be recognized?
though I know not how these can be defined.
(16.) Is the head nodded vertically in affirmation, and shaken
laterally in negation?
Observations on natives who have had little communication
with Europeans would be of course the most valuable,
though those made on any natives would be of much interest to me.
General remarks on expression are of comparatively little value;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: of grass and sap came to them in occasional long whiffs. There
was exhilaration in the very thought of being alive on that
odorous, still morning. The young blood went spanking in the
veins. Blix's cheeks were ruddy, her little dark-brown eyes
fairly coruscating with pleasure.
"Condy, isn't it all splendid?" she suddenly burst out.
"I feel regularly bigger," he declared solemnly. "I could do
anything a morning like this."
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