| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: bears that name." The little man went up to the barrel, and
seemed regularly all took aback when he saw the address, and then
he pitched into us for not having brought what he wanted. "I
don't care a damn what you want," sez I to him, "but if you are
Will'm Bent Pitman, there's your barrel."'
'Well, and did he take it?' cried the breathless Morris.
'Well, sir,' returned Bill, 'it appears it was a packing-case he
was after. The packing-case came; that's sure enough, because it
was about the biggest packing-case ever I clapped eyes on. And
this Pitman he seemed a good deal cut up, and he had the
superintendent out, and they got hold of the vanman--him as took
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: "As for that," said the old man, "yes, and no. The good woman is well
set-up, but--she is not living. You young men think you have done all
when you have drawn the form correctly, and put everything in place
according to the laws of anatomy. You color the features with flesh-
tones, mixed beforehand on your palette,--taking very good care to
shade one side of the face darker than the other; and because you draw
now and then from a nude woman standing on a table, you think you can
copy nature; you fancy yourselves painters, and imagine that you have
got at the secret of God's creations! Pr-r-r-r!--To be a great poet it
is not enough to know the rules of syntax and write faultless grammar.
Look at your saint, Porbus. At first sight she is admirable; but at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: summons sovereign powers to its bar. When the clerk of the court
advances on the steps of the tribunal, and simply says, "The
State of New York versus the State of Ohio," it is impossible not
to feel that the Court which he addresses is no ordinary body;
and when it is recollected that one of these parties represents
one million, and the other two millions of men, one is struck by
the responsibility of the seven judges whose decision is about to
satisfy or to disappoint so large a number of their
fellow-citizens.
The peace, the prosperity, and the very existence of the
Union are vested in the hands of the seven judges. Without their
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