| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: that between the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed. When you
repeat the Apostles' Creed you affirm that you believe certain things.
There you are clearly within your rights. When you repeat the
Athanasian Creed, you affirm that certain things are so, and that
anybody who doubts that they are so cannot be saved. And this is
simply a piece of impudence on your part, as you know nothing about it
except that as good men as you have never heard of your creed. The
apostolic attitude is a desire to convert others to our beliefs for
the sake of sympathy and light: the Athanasian attitude is a desire
to murder people who dont agree with us. I am sufficient of an
Athanasian to advocate a law for the speedy execution of all
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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 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: neighbors to explore. The latter then agreed, with a view to
conciliate the others, and to facilitate the act of union, to lay
down their own boundaries, and to abandon all the territory which
lay beyond those limits to the confederation at large. *x
Thenceforward the Federal Government became the owner of all the
uncultivated lands which lie beyond the borders of the thirteen
States first confederated. It was invested with the right of
parcelling and selling them, and the sums derived from this
source were exclusively reserved to the public treasure of the
Union, in order to furnish supplies for purchasing tracts of
country from the Indians, for opening roads to the remote
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "It has cut many, however," said Anthony Foster, half aside, and
looking at Varney. By this time the knot was disentangled
without any other help than the neat and nimble fingers of Janet,
a simply-attired pretty maiden, the daughter of Anthony Foster,
who came running at the repeated call of her mistress. A
necklace of orient pearl, the companion of a perfumed billet, was
now hastily produced from the packet. The lady gave the one,
after a slight glance, to the charge of her attendant, while she
read, or rather devoured, the contents of the other.
"Surely, lady," said Janet, gazing with admiration at the neck-
string of pearls, "the daughters of Tyre wore no fairer neck-
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