| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: your work, Simon," he said. "I spy your hand in the business, and, let
me tell you, I resent it. It is disloyal, when we are agreed upon one
expedient, to follow another in the dark. You are disloyal to me.
What! you let me send this lad to the place with my very daughters!
And because I let drop a word to you..... Fy, sir, keep your dishonours
to yourself!"
Simon was deadly pale. "I will be a kick-ball between you and the Duke
no longer," he exclaimed. "Either come to an agreement, or come to a
differ, and have it out among yourselves. But I will no longer fetch
and carry, and get your contrary instructions, and be blamed by both.
For if I were to tell you what I think of all your Hanover business it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: derangement of their functions, causing an insufficiency of them, an
excess, or an abnormality, upsets the entire equilibrium of the body,
with transforming effects upon the mind and the organs. In short,
they control human nature, and whoever controls them, controls human
nature....
``Blood chemistry of our time is a marvel, undreamed of a generation
ago. Also, these achievements are a perfect example of the
accomplished fact contradicting a prior prediction and criticism. For
it was one of the accepted dogmas of the nineteenth century that the
phenomena of living could never be subjected to accurate quantitative
analysis.'' But the ethical dogmas of the past, no less than the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: turned to her sweet face, and the balance of my mood swayed and
reeled.
"'They want me only to do the thing they dare not do
themselves,' I said. 'If they distrust Evesham they must settle
with him themselves.'
"She looked at me doubtfully.
"'But war--' she said.
"I saw a doubt on her face that I had seen before, a doubt of
herself and me, the first shadow of the discovery that, seen
strongly and completely, must drive us apart for ever.
"Now, I was an older mind than hers, and I could sway her to
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