| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: the republican spirit of Knox. It was not difficult for him
to set aside this weak scruple of loyalty. The lantern of
his analysis did not always shine with a very serviceable
light; but he had the virtue, at least, to carry it into many
places of fictitious holiness, and was not abashed by the
tinsel divinity that hedged kings and queens from his
contemporaries. And so he could put the proposition in the
form already mentioned: there was Christ's Gospel persecuted
in the two kingdoms by one anomalous power plainly, then, the
"regiment of women" was Antichristian. Early in 1558 he
communicated this discovery to the world, by publishing at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: god, the sailor drove by them. The huge sail seemed to grip the
boat from the crests of the waves, to tear it bodily out of the
water, and fling it crashing and smothering down into the yawning
troughs.
"The sea'll never catch him!"
"But he'll r-r-run her nose under!"
Even as they spoke, the black tarpaulin swooped from sight behind a
big comber. The next wave rolled over the spot, and the next, but
the boat did not reappear. The Alma rushed by the place. A little
riffraff of oats and boxes was seen. An arm thrust up and a shaggy
head broke surface a score of yards away.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: symptoms rather than essentials, outrages that call for special
punishments and reparations, but that do not enter further into
the ultimate settlement, we can begin to conceive a possible
world treaty. Let me state the broad outlines of this
pacification. The outlines depend one upon the other; each is a
condition of the other. It is upon these lines that the
thoughtful, as distinguished from the merely the combative
people, seem to be drifting everywhere.
In the first place, it is agreed that there would have to be an
identical treaty between all the great powers of the world
binding them to certain things. It would have to provide:---
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