| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: out not quite hopelessly from behind the window-curtains of lonely
lodgings. If she did the flowers for the bachelors, in short,
didn't she expect that to have consequences very different from
such an outlook at Cocker's as she had pronounced wholly desperate?
There seemed in very truth something auspicious in the mixture of
bachelors and flowers, though, when looked hard in the eye, Mrs.
Jordan was not quite prepared to say she had expected a positive
proposal from Lord Rye to pop out of it. Our young woman arrived
at last, none the less, at a definite vision of what was in her
mind. This was a vivid foreknowledge that the betrothed of Mr.
Mudge would, unless conciliated in advance by a successful rescue,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: occupation of men and women normally employed in
industry or brain-work; if, instead of being conducted
by ancient traditional methods, without any
possibility of intelligent participation by the wage-
earner, it were alive with the search for new methods
and new inventions, filled with the spirit of freedom,
and inviting the mental as well as the physical cooperation
of those who do the work, it might become
a joy instead of a weariness, and a source of health
and life to those engaged in it.
What is true of agriculture is said by Anarchists
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: carrying its banner with the motto, "Let brotherly love continue,"
encircling a picture of a stone-pit.
The carts, of course, were not to enter the Chase. Every one must
get down at the lodges, and the vehicles must be sent back.
"Why, the Chase is like a fair a'ready," said Mrs. Poyser, as she
got down from the cart, and saw the groups scattered under the
great oaks, and the boys running about in the hot sunshine to
survey the tall poles surmounted by the fluttering garments that
were to be the prize of the successful climbers. "I should ha'
thought there wasna so many people i' the two parishes. Mercy on
us! How hot it is out o' the shade! Come here, Totty, else your
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