| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: and skilled labourers in England who will volunteer to come
out to Russia and help us? There is so much to do that I can
promise they will have the best we can give them. We are
almost as short of skilled men as we are of locomotives. We
are now taking simple unskilled workmen who show any
signs of brains and training them as we go along. There
must be engineers, railwaymen, mechanics among English
socialists who would be glad to come. And of course they
need not be socialists, so long as they are good engineers."
That last suggestion of his is entirely characteristic. It is
impossible to make the Bolsheviks realize that the English
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: the Union, slavery exists; all that I have just said is
consequently inapplicable there. In the North, the majority of
servants are either freedmen or the children of freedmen; these
persons occupy a contested position in the public estimation; by
the laws they are brought up to the level of their masters - by
the manners of the country they are obstinately detruded from it.
They do not themselves clearly know their proper place, and they
are almost always either insolent or craven. But in the Northern
States, especially in New England, there are a certain number of
whites, who agree, for wages, to yield a temporary obedience to
the will of their fellow-citizens. I have heard that these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: he should raise his eyes.
He didn't do that but spoke in his usual voice. "So this is your
husband, that . . . And I locked up!"
"Papa, what's the good of harping on that," she remonstrated no
louder. "He is kind."
"And you went and . . . married him so that he should be kind to me.
Is that it? How did you know that I wanted anybody to be kind to
me?"
"How strange you are!" she said thoughtfully.
"It's hard for a man who has gone through what I have gone through
to feel like other people. Has that occurred to you? . . . " He
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