| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: Powerfully
impressing the weavers of certain myths, they had become embodied
in a stream of cryptic lore which, somehow, coming to my notice
during the amnesic period, had evoked vivid images in my subconscious
mind.
But how could I explain the exact and minute fashion in
which each line and spiral of these strange designs tallied with
what I had dreamed for more than a score of years? What obscure,
forgotten iconography could have reproduced each subtle shading
and nuance which so persistently, exactly, and unvaryingly besieged
my sleeping vision night after night?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: deport 15,000 insurgents without trial, moves at this period again at
the head of the Military Committees now active in Paris.
Although the honest, the pure republicans built with the state of siege
the nursery in which the Praetorian guards of December 2, 1851, were to
be reared, they, on the other hand, deserve praise in that, instead of
exaggerating the feeling of patriotism, as under Louis Philippe, now;
they themselves are in command of the national power, they crawl before
foreign powers; instead of making Italy free, they allow her to be
reconquered by Austrians and Neapolitans. The election of Louis
Bonaparte for President on December 10, 1848, put an end to the
dictatorship of Cavaignac and to the constitutional assembly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: themselves, not for their own sakes merely, but for the sake of
others. For, whether they will or not, they must educate others.
I do not speak merely of those who may be engaged in the work of
direct teaching; that they ought to be well taught themselves, who
can doubt? I speak of those--and in so doing I speak of every
woman, young and old--who exercise as wife, as mother, as aunt, as
sister, or as friend, an influence, indirect it may be, and
unconscious, but still potent and practical, on the minds and
characters of those about them, especially of men. How potent and
practical that influence is, those know best who know most of the
world and most of human nature. There are those who consider--and
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