| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: judgment is based, not on any mere imaginings, but upon the actual
result of the experiments already made. Still it must be remembered
that so vast and desirable an end cannot be even practically
contemplated without a proportionate financial outlay. Supposing,
however, by the subscription of this amount the undertaking is fairly
set afloat. The question may be asked, "What further funds will be
required for its efficient maintenance?" This question we proceed to
answer. Let us look at the three Colonies apart, and then at some of
the circumstances which apply to the whole. To begin with, there is
THE FINANCIAL ASPECT OF THE CITY COLONY.
Here there will be, of course, a considerable outlay required for the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: carpet."
"But, as you say, we shall surely have that in a letter."
She thought like one inspired, and I remembered how Corvick had
told me long before that her face was interesting. "Perhaps it
can't be got into a letter if it's 'immense.'"
"Perhaps not if it's immense bosh. If he has hold of something
that can't be got into a letter he hasn't hold of THE thing.
Vereker's own statement to me was exactly that the 'figure' WOULD
fit into a letter."
"Well, I cabled to George an hour ago - two words," said Gwendolen.
"Is it indiscreet of me to ask what they were?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: that rarest of all things, common sense.
The wild, turbid feelings of the previous night had by this time
completely passed away, and it was almost with a sense of shame
that he looked back upon his mad wanderings from street to street,
his fierce emotional agony. The very sincerity of his sufferings
made them seem unreal to him now. He wondered how he could have
been so foolish as to rant and rave about the inevitable. The only
question that seemed to trouble him was, whom to make away with;
for he was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of
the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest. Not being
a genius, he had no enemies, and indeed he felt that this was not
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