| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: violent gesture, wheeled about, returned straight to the
door, and rapped upon the knocker. He was almost immediately
admitted by the first arrival.
My curiosity was now broad awake. I made myself as small as
I could in the very densest of the shadow, and waited for the
sequel. Nor had I long to wait. From the same side of the
square a second young man made his appearance, walking slowly
and softly, and like the first, muffled to the nose. Before
the house he paused, looked all about him with a swift and
comprehensive glance; and seeing the square lie empty in the
moon and lamplight, leaned far across the area railings and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: months after Mr. Lincoln's death, was able to make official
announcement that 29 States, constituting a majority of three-
fourths of the 36 States of the Union, had adopted it, and that
therefore it was the law of the land.
Jefferson Davis had issued a last appeal to "fire the southern
heart," but the situation at Richmond was becoming desperate
Flour cost a thousand dollars a barrel in Confederate money, and
neither the flour nor the money were sufficient for their needs.
Squads of guards were sent into the streets with directions to
arrest every able-bodied man they met, and force him to work in
defense of the town. It is said that the medical boards were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: And to speak next of his wisdom,[3] I suppose there is not one of all
his doings but must illustrate it;--this man whose bearing towards his
fatherland was such that by dint of implicit obedience [he grew to so
greate a height of power],[4] whose zeal in the service of his
comrades won for him the unhesitating attachment of his friends, who
infused into the hearts of his soldiers a spirit, not of discipline
only, but of self-devotion to their chief. And yet surely that is the
strongest of all battle-lines[5] in which obedience creates tactical
efficieny, and alacrity in the field springs out of loyal affection
for the general.
[3] Or, "his sagacity."
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