| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: "No, Doctor!" persisted George. "You can cure me in less time
than that."
The other answered, "No! No! No!"
George caught him by the hand, imploringly. "Yes! Science in
all powerful!"
"Science is not God," was the reply. "There are no longer any
miracles."
"If only you wanted to do it!" cried the young man, hysterically.
"You are a learned man; seek, invent, find something! Try some
new plan with me; give me double the dose, ten times the does;
make me suffer. I give myself up to you; I will endure
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: one from the standpoint of an old Hebrew prophet, the other rather
from that of a Juvenal or a Tacitus, tried the other method, and
called acts by their just names, appealing alike to conscience and
to God. The result was virtue and piety, and that manly
independence of soul which is thought compatible with hearty
loyalty, in a country labouring under heavy disadvantages, long
divided almost into two hostile camps, two rival races.
And the good influence was soon manifest, not only in those who
sided with Buchanan and his friends, but in those who most opposed
them. The Roman Catholic preachers, who at first asserted Mary's
right to impurity while they allowed her guilt, grew silent for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and wild wood fowl, on which the baron fell with as much alacrity
as if he had been a true pilgrim from Palestine.
The husband produced some recondite flasks of wine, which were laid
by in a binn consecrated to Robin, whose occasional visits to them
in his wanderings were the festal days of these warm-hearted cottagers,
whose manners showed that they had not been born to this low estate.
Their story had no mystery, and Marian easily collected it from
the tenour of their conversation. The young man had been, like Robin,
the victim of an usurious abbot, and had been outlawed for debt,
and his nut-brown maid had accompanied him to the depths of Sherwood,
where they lived an unholy and illegitimate life, killing the king's deer,
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