| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with the bad. What is your judgment?"
Then Tars Tarkas came slowly to his feet, unfolding all his mighty,
towering height until he loomed, a green-bronze statue, far above us all.
He turned a baleful eye upon me--he, Tars Tarkas, with whom I had fought
through countless battles; whom I loved as a brother.
I could have wept had I not been so mad with rage that I
almost whipped my sword out and had at them all upon the spot.
"Judges," he said, "there can be but one verdict. No longer may
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: murdered, his dishonesty known, an old man, broken, discarded,
discredited, and abandoned.
Before nightfall of that day, Bonneville was further excited by
an astonishing bit of news. S. Behrman lived in a detached house
at some distance from the town, surrounded by a grove of live oak
and eucalyptus trees. At a little after half-past six, as he was
sitting down to his supper, a bomb was thrown through the window
of his dining-room, exploding near the doorway leading into the
hall. The room was wrecked and nearly every window of the house
shattered. By a miracle, S. Behrman, himself, remained
untouched.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: loss to the military efficiency of the country. Every man that
is needed or is likely to be needed for the actual operations of
modern warfare can be got by combing out the cavalry, the brewing
and distilling industries, the theatres and music halls, and the
like unproductive occupations. The under-staffing of munition
works, the diminution of their efficiency by the use of aged and
female labour, is the straight course to failure in this war.
In X, in the forges and machine shops, I saw already too large a
proportion of boys and grey heads.
War is a thing that changes very rapidly, and we have in the
Tanks only the first of a great series of offensive developments.
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