| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: Amid the thundering of cannon and the applause of all the
spectators, President Lincoln and Citizen Buchanan again entered
their carriage and drove back from the Capitol to the Executive
Mansion, on the threshold of which Mr. Buchanan, warmly shaking
the hand of his successor, expressed his wishes for the personal
happiness of the new President, and for the national peace and
prosperity.
VII. LINCOLN AND THE WAR
It is one thing to be elected President of the United States,--
that means triumph, honor, power: it is quite another thing to
perform the duties of President,--for that means labor,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: deposits and of those at Baku, and the possible decreasing
significance of Baku in Russian industry generally, we
passed to broader perspectives. I asked him what he
thought of the relations between agriculture and industry in
Russia, and supposed that he did not imagine that Russia
would ever become a great industrial country. His answer
was characteristic of the tremendous hopes that nerve these
people in their almost impossible task, and I set it down as
nearly as I can in his own words. For him, of course, the
economic problem was the first, and he spoke of it as the
director of a huge trust might have spoken. But, as he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: suppose that you follow me now?
EUTHYPHRO: Quite well.
SOCRATES: That was the sort of question which I meant to raise when I
asked whether the just is always the pious, or the pious always the just;
and whether there may not be justice where there is not piety; for justice
is the more extended notion of which piety is only a part. Do you dissent?
EUTHYPHRO: No, I think that you are quite right.
SOCRATES: Then, if piety is a part of justice, I suppose that we should
enquire what part? If you had pursued the enquiry in the previous cases;
for instance, if you had asked me what is an even number, and what part of
number the even is, I should have had no difficulty in replying, a number
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