| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: heavy trunk was taken to the house of a sculptor, a friend
of Derues, who agreed to keep it in his studio until Derues
could take it down to his place in the country. Bertin came in
to dinner again that evening, and also the young de Lamotte.
Derues was gayer than ever, laughing and joking with his guests.
He told the boy that his mother had quite recovered and gone to
Versailles to see about finding him some post at the Court.
"We'll go and see her there in a day or two," he said, "I'll let
you know when."
On the following day a smartly dressed, dapper, but very pale
little gentleman, giving the name of Ducoudray, hired a vacant
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: rooms until I can make a house for you." Then he was taken ashore
and brought to a tall, iron house. "This house is regulated," said
the governor; "there is no fire allowed to burn in it." In one
part of this house, weapons of the government were hung up; there
was a passage, and on the other side of the passage, fifty
criminals were chained together, two and two, by the ankles. The
windows were out of reach; and there was only one door, which was
opened at six in the morning and shut again at six at night. All
day he had his liberty, went to the Baptist Mission, and walked
about viewing the negroes, who were "like the sand on the seashore"
for number. At six they were called into the house and shut in for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: so-called "liberal" Christians. As an expression of it, I will
quote a page from one of Martineau's sermons:--
[318] "Good Heaven!" says Epictetus, "any one thing in the
creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence, to a humble
and grateful mind. The mere possibility of producing milk from
grass, cheese from milk, and wool from skins; who formed and
planned it? Ought we not, whether we dig or plough or eat, to
sing this hymn to God? Great is God, who has supplied us with
these instruments to till the ground; great is God, who has given
us hands and instruments of digestion, who has given us to grow
insensibly and to breathe in sleep. These things we ought
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