| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: grappled with, we shall be in greater straits than ever. True, it will
find employment for a multitude of energies and talents which are now
lying dormant, but, nevertheless, this extension will tax our resources
to the very utmost. In view of this, reinforcements will be
indispensable. We shall need the best brains, the largest experience,
and the most undaunted energy of the community.
I want Recruits, but I cannot soften the conditions in order to attract
men to the Colours. I want no comrades on these terms, but those who
know our rules and are prepared to submit to our discipline: who are
one with us on the great principles which determine our action,
and whose hearts are in this great work for the amelioration of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: He was particularly keen upon the question of continuity in the
business, when it behoves the older generation to let in the
younger to responsible management and to efface themselves. He
was a man of five-and-forty. Incidentally he mentioned that he
had never taken anything for his private life out of the great
business he had built up but a salary, "a good salary," and that
now he was gong to grant himself a pension. "I shan't interfere
any more. I shall come right away and live in Europe for a year
so as not to be tempted to interfere. The boys have got to run
it some day, and they had better get their experience while
they're young and capable of learning by it. I did."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: slender evidences as you have done hitherto.
It is from you, eloquent oyster-merchants of Billingsgate, (just
ready to be called to the Bar, and quoif'd like your
sister-serjants,) that we expect the shortening the time, and
lessening the expences of law-suits: For I think you are observ'd
to bring your debates to a short issue; and even custom will
restrain you from taking the oyster, and leaving only the shell
to your client.
O ye physicians, (who in the figure of old women are to clean the
tripe in the markets) scour it as effectually as you have done
that of your patients, and the town will fare most deliciously on
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