| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: the spirit of friendship; and having been reconciled to itself, it was
indissoluble by the hand of any other than the framer.
Now the creation took up the whole of each of the four elements; for the
Creator compounded the world out of all the fire and all the water and all
the air and all the earth, leaving no part of any of them nor any power of
them outside. His intention was, in the first place, that the animal
should be as far as possible a perfect whole and of perfect parts:
secondly, that it should be one, leaving no remnants out of which another
such world might be created: and also that it should be free from old age
and unaffected by disease. Considering that if heat and cold and other
powerful forces which unite bodies surround and attack them from without
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: *j Obstacles, such as an unproductive district, a lake or an
Indian nation unexpectedly encountered, are sometimes met with.
The advancing column then halts for a while; its two extremities
fall back upon themselves, and as soon as they are reunited they
proceed onwards. This gradual and continuous progress of the
European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a
providential event; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly,
and daily driven onwards by the hand of God.
[Footnote j: See Legislative Documents, 20th Congress, No. 117,
p. 105.]
Within this first line of conquering settlers towns are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: ecclesiastical or temporal; civil, military, maritime, or
criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power
which must, in all governments, reside somewhere, is intrusted by
the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and
grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary
course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary
tribunal. It can regulate or new-model the succession to the
Crown; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII and William III.
It can alter the established religion of the land; as was done in
a variety of instances in the reigns of King Henry VIII and his
three children. It can change and create afresh even the
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