| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: AND OF FOUNTAINS.'
At Pont de Montvert, on the 12th of August, he had his right hand
stricken from his body, and was burned alive. And his soul was
like a garden? So perhaps was the soul of Du Chayla, the Christian
martyr. And perhaps if you could read in my soul, or I could read
in yours, our own composure might seem little less surprising.
Du Chayla's house still stands, with a new roof, beside one of the
bridges of the town; and if you are curious you may see the
terrace-garden into which he dropped.
IN THE VALLEY OF THE TARN
A NEW road leads from Pont de Montvert to Florac by the valley of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: carries off yearly before they are five years old? Have they
considered what they are to do with all those children whom they
are going to save alive? That has to be thought of; and if they
really do believe, with some political economists, that over-
population is a possibility to a country which has the greatest
colonial empire that the world has ever seen; then I think they
had better stop in their course, and let the children die, as they
have been in the habit of dying.
But if, on the other hand, it seems to them, as I confess it does
to me, that the most precious thing in the world is a human being;
that the lowest, and poorest, and the most degraded of human
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: -- a heavy saber in a leather-covered scabbard. The man's
tunic appeared to have been fabricated upon a loom -- it was
certainly not made of skins, while the garments that covered
his legs were quite as evidently made from the hides of
rodents.
Tarzan noted the utter unconcern with which the man
approached the lions, and the equal indifference of Numa to
him. The fellow paused for a moment as though appraising
the ape-man and then pushed on past the lions, brushing
against the tawny hide as he passed him in the trail.
About twenty feet from Tarzan the man stopped, addressing
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