| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: be seen in the snow.
"Will you follow these tracks in the direction from which they have
come?" he asked of Amster. "Then meet me at the station and report
what you have seen."
"Very well, sir," answered the workman. The two men parted with a
hand shake.
Before Muller started on to follow up the tracks in the other
direction, he took up one of the larger pieces' of glass. "Cheap
glass," he said, looking at it carefully. "It was only a hired cab,
therefore, and a one-horse cab at that."
He walked on slowly, following the marks of the wheels. His eyes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: abstract convictions. The vanguard of humanity has won its battle for
freedom of thought.
But, to the men and women taking part in that mighty movement during the
long centuries of the past, probably nothing was quite clear, in the
majority of cases, but their own immediate move. Not the leaders--most
certainly not good old Martin Luther, even when he gave utterance to his
immortal "I can no otherwise" (the eternal justification of all reformers
and social innovators!), understood the whole breadth of the battlefield on
which they were engaged, or grasped with precision the issues which were
involved. The valiant Englishman, who, as the flames shot up about him,
cried to his companion in death, "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: solemnly.
"My dear lord," answered Villon, "do you really fancy that I steal
for pleasure? I hate stealing, like any other piece of work or of
danger. My teeth chatter when I see a gallows. But I must eat, I
must drink, I must mix in society of some sort. What the devil!
Man is not a solitary animal - CUI DEUS FAEMINAM TRADIT. Make me
king's pantler - make me abbot of St. Denis; make me bailly of the
Patatrac; and then I shall be changed indeed. But as long as you
leave me the poor scholar Francis Villon, without a farthing, why,
of course, I remain the same."
"The grace of God is all-powerful."
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