| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: He was followed by an angry mother, with hot red face, dragging along
two screaming children, and calling, to some one behind, "John! Come on!"
Enter John, very meek, very silent, and loaded with parcels.
And he was followed, in his turn, by a frightened little nursemaid,
carrying a fat baby, also screaming. All the children screamed.
"Capital byplay!" said the old man aside. "Did you notice the
nursemaid's look of terror? It was simply perfect!"
"You have struck quite a new vein," I said. "To most of us Life and
its pleasures seem like a mine that is nearly worked out."
"Worked out!" exclaimed the Earl. "For any one with true dramatic
instincts, it is only the Overture that is ended! The real treat has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: showed us the roll of the New Laws. Why not? We had
lent them money. We knew all their counsels - we Jews
shivering behind our doors in Bury.' He threw out his
hands suddenly. 'We did not seek to be paid all in money.
We sought Power- Power- Power! That is our God in our
captivity. Power to use!
'I said to Elias: "These New Laws are good. Lend no
more money to the King: so long as he has money he will
lie and slay the people."
"'Nay," said Elias. "I know this people. They are
madly cruel. Better one King than a thousand butchers. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: inclined to survey its ruins with complacency, and to fix our
abode in the midst of them.
The phenomena which the intellectual world presents are not
less deplorable. The democracy of France, checked in its course
or abandoned to its lawless passions, has overthrown whatever
crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed.
Its empire on society has not been gradually introduced or
peaceably established, but it has constantly advanced in the
midst of disorder and the agitation of a conflict. In the heat
of the struggle each partisan is hurried beyond the limits of his
opinions by the opinions and the excesses of his opponents, until
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