| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: but it is no fault of his that in peace as in war, that in
conquering Rebel armies as in reconstructing the rebellious States,
the right of the negro is the true solution of our national
troubles. The stern logic of events, which goes directly to the
point, disdaining all concern for the color or features of men,
has determined the interests of the country as identical with
and inseparable from those of the negro.
The policy that emancipated and armed the negro--now seen to
have been wise and proper by the dullest--was not certainly more
sternly demanded than is now the policy of enfranchisement.
If with the negro was success in war, and without him failure,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: moor interspersed with boulders and clumps of naked bushes. But,
as he says, "he steered his course by the feel of the wind," his
hat rammed low on his brow, his head down, stopping now and again
from mere weariness of mind rather than of body - as if not his
strength but his resolution were being overtaxed by the strain of
endeavour half suspected to be vain, and by the unrest of his
feelings.
In one of these pauses borne in the wind faintly as if from very
far away he heard a sound of knocking, just knocking on wood. He
noticed that the wind had lulled suddenly.
His heart started beating tumultuously because in himself he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: business which even the lowest thief would not have touched!"
"Pardon me, your Highness; I do not understand to what you are
referring."
"I am referring to the matter of the fraudulent will. The fellow ought
to have been given a public flogging for it."
"Although to exculpate Chichikov is not my intention, might I ask you
whether you do not think the case is non-proven? At all events,
sufficient evidence against him is still lacking."
"What? We have as chief witness the woman who personated the deceased,
and I will have her interrogated in your presence."
Touching a bell, the Prince ordered her to be sent for.
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