The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently
distinct the more prominent objects around; the eye, however,
struggled in vain to reach the remoter angles of the chamber, or
the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling. Dark draperies
hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse,
comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical
instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality
to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and
pervaded all.
Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: in bed. "He was going," he said, "the way of welfare." They asked
him to soften the passage; the king might prohibit the whole work.
"Tell me, man," said Buchanan, "if I have told the truth." They
could not, or would not, deny it. "Then I will abide his feud, and
all his kin's; pray, pray to God for me, and let Him direct all."
"So," says Melville, "before the printing of his chronicle was
ended, this most learned, wise, and godly man ended his mortal
life."
Camden has a hearsay story--written, it must be remembered, in James
I.'s time--that Buchanan, on his death-bed, repented of his harsh
words against Queen Mary; and an old Lady Rosyth is said to have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: of the bourgeoisie were developed.
The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up
fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and
Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the
colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in
commodities
generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an
impulse
never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in
the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production
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