| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: way, if she wants to do anything or go anywhere. Now, that Madam
How can be very terrible there can be no doubt: but there is no
doubt also that, if people choose to learn, she will teach them to
get out of her way whenever she has business to do which is
dangerous to them. But as for her being cruel and unjust, those
may believe it who like. You, my dear boys and girls, need not
believe it, if you will only trust to Lady Why; and be sure that
Why is the mistress and How the servant, now and for ever. That
Lady Why is utterly good and kind I know full well; and I believe
that, in her case too, the old proverb holds, "Like mistress, like
servant;" and that the more we know of Madam How, the more we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Down with Issus!" and then at my back and from all
sides rose a hoarse shout, "To the throne! To the throne!"
As one man we moved, an irresistible fighting mass, over
the bodies of dead and dying foes toward the gorgeous
throne of the Martian deity. Hordes of the doughtiest
fighting-men of the First Born poured from the audience to
check our progress. We mowed them down before us as they
had been paper men.
"To the seats, some of you!" I cried as we approached
the arena's barrier wall. "Ten of us can take the throne,"
for I had seen that Issus' guards had for the most part
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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: which they give reasons quite incompetent, often quite irrelevant;
but which they have caught from each other, as they catch fever or
small-pox; as unconsciously, and yet as practically and potently;
just as the nineteenth century has caught from the philosophers of
the eighteenth most practical rules of conduct, without even (in
most cases) having read a word of their works.
And what has this century caught from these philosophers? One rule
it has learnt, and that a most practical one--to appeal in all
cases, as much as possible, to "Reason and the Laws of Nature."
That, at least, the philosophers tried to do. Often they failed.
Their conceptions of reason and of the laws of nature being often
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