| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: longer exists. How do I know? I killed the last one with my own
right arm."
Thus spake Nimrod, the mighty Hunter. I threw a stick of firewood
at the dogs and bade them quit their unholy howling, and waited.
Undoubtedly this liar of singular felicity would open his mouth and
requite me for my St. Elias bear.
"It was this way," he at last began, after the appropriate silence
had intervened. "I was in camp one day--"
"Where?" I interrupted.
He waved his hand vaguely in the direction of the north-east, where
stretched a TERRA INCOGNITA into which vastness few men have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: body and soul. That, however, which is most diseased and
degenerated in such nondescripts is the WILL; they are no longer
familiar with independence of decision, or the courageous feeling
of pleasure in willing--they are doubtful of the "freedom of the
will" even in their dreams Our present-day Europe, the scene of a
senseless, precipitate attempt at a radical blending of classes,
and CONSEQUENTLY of races, is therefore skeptical in all its
heights and depths, sometimes exhibiting the mobile skepticism
which springs impatiently and wantonly from branch to branch,
sometimes with gloomy aspect, like a cloud over-charged with
interrogative signs--and often sick unto death of its will!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: same inclination to sport into fresh varieties, the same competition
of species between those varieties, which Mr. Darwin has pointed out
among plants and mere animals. A distinguished man arises; from him
a distinguished family; from it a distinguished tribe, stronger,
cunninger than those around. It asserts its supremacy over its
neighbours at first exactly as a plant or animal would do, by
destroying, and, where possible, eating them; next, having grown
more prudent, by enslaving them; next, having gained a little
morality in addition to its prudence, by civilising them, raising
them more or less toward its own standard. And thus, in every land,
civilisation and national life has arisen out of the patriarchal
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