| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: adaequarent.
Ubi eum castris se tenere Caesar intellexit, ne diutius commeatu
prohiberetur, ultra eum locum, quo in loco Germani consederant, circiter
passus DC ab his, castris idoneum locum delegit acieque triplici instructa
ad eum locum venit. Primam et secundam aciem in armis esse, tertiam
castra munire iussit. [Hic locus ab hoste circiter passus DC, uti dictum
est, aberat.] Eo circiter hominum XVI milia expedita cum omni equitatu
Ariovistus misit, quae copiae nostros terrerent et munitione prohiberent.
Nihilo setius Caesar, ut ante constituerat, duas acies hostem propulsare,
tertiam opus perficere iussit. Munitis castris duas ibi legiones reliquit
et partem auxiliorum, quattuor reliquas legiones in castra maiora reduxit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: of graphite and rich or poor coal. It may be asserted that it is
for want of sufficient pressure that beds of peaty bog have not been
completely changed into coal. So then, the origin of coal mines,
in whatever part of the globe they have been discovered, is this:
the absorption through the terrestrial crust of the great forests
of the geological period; then, the mineralization of the vegetables
obtained in the course of time, under the influence of pressure and heat,
and under the action of carbonic acid.
Now, at the time when the events related in this story took place,
some of the most important mines of the Scottish coal beds had
been exhausted by too rapid working. In the region which extends
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and
importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of
being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to
employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their
helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for
want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for
the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number
of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of
their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present
deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional
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