| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: the track of their forefathers, had forgotten the reasons by
which the latter had been guided. They still used the formula,
without asking for its meaning: they retained the instrument, but
they no longer possessed the art of altering or renewing it. The
Chinese, then, had lost the power of change; for them to improve
was impossible. They were compelled, at all times and in all
points, to imitate their predecessors, lest they should stray
into utter darkness, by deviating for an instant from the path
already laid down for them. The source of human knowledge was
all but dry; and though the stream still ran on, it could neither
swell its waters nor alter its channel. Notwithstanding this,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Chronicles 27: 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
2_Chronicles 27: 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2_Chronicles 27: 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2_Chronicles 27: 9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2_Chronicles 28: 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, like David his father;
2_Chronicles 28: 2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.
2_Chronicles 28: 3 Moreover he offered in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2_Chronicles 28: 4 And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
2_Chronicles 28: 5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: "My relations with Miss Anvoy are not at an end," poor Gravener
stammered.
Again for an instant I thought. "The offer I propose to make you
gives me the right to address you a question remarkably direct.
Are you still engaged to Miss Anvoy?"
"No, I'm not," he slowly brought out. "But we're perfectly good
friends."
"Such good friends that you'll again become prospective husband and
wife if the obstacle in your path be removed?"
"Removed?" he anxiously repeated.
"If I send Miss Anvoy the letter I speak of she may give up her
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