The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: feeds great flocks of good sheep; but put it all together, the
county of Norfolk has the most people in the least tract of land of
any county in England, except about London, and Exon, and the West
Riding of Yorkshire, as above.
Add to this, that there is no single county in England, except as
above, that can boast of three towns so populous, so rich, and so
famous for trade and navigation, as in this county. By these three
towns, I mean the city of Norwich, the towns of Yarmouth and Lynn.
Besides that, it has several other seaports of very good trade, as
Wisbech, Wells, Burnham, Clye, etc.
Norwich is the capital of all the county, and the centre of all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: sense of right. It is not only by steel or fire, but through
contempt and blame, that the martyr fulfils the calling of
his dear soul. Be glad if you are not tried by such
extremities. But although all the world ranged themselves in
one line to tell you 'This is wrong,' be you your own
faithful vassal and the ambassador of God - throw down the
glove and answer 'This is right.' Do you think you are only
declaring yourself? Perhaps in some dim way, like a child
who delivers a message not fully understood, you are opening
wider the straits of prejudice and preparing mankind for some
truer and more spiritual grasp of truth; perhaps, as you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: like our own North American Indians when questioned
by a white man, they pretended not to understand me.
One of them swung me to his shoulder as lightly as if I
had been a shoat. He was a huge creature, as were his
fellows, standing fully seven feet upon his short legs and
weighing considerably more than a quarter of a ton.
Two went ahead of my bearer and three behind. In
this order we cut to the right through the forest to the
foot of the hill where precipitous cliffs appeared to bar
our farther progress in this direction. But my escort
never paused. Like ants upon a wall, they scaled that
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