| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: decrepitude came upon him, and with those days the constant
importunity of physical feebleness, an importunity all the more
distressing by contrast with the wealth of memories of his
impetuous youth and the sensual pleasures of middle age. The
unbeliever who in the height of his cynical humor had been wont
to persuade others to believe in laws and principles at which he
scoffed, must repose nightly upon a PERHAPS. The great Duke, the
pattern of good breeding, the champion of many a carouse, the
proud ornament of Courts, the man of genius, the graceful winner
of hearts that he had wrung as carelessly as a peasant twists an
osier withe, was now the victim of a cough, of a ruthless
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: dispute about stipends instead of preaching the kingdom of God,
then they are bound to face it. The sooner they do so, the more
graceful will the act be. From these personal apologetics the
bishop took up the question of the exemption, at the request of
the bishops, of the clergy from military service. It is one of
our contrasts with French conditions--and it is all to the
disadvantage of the British churches.
In his Piccadilly contribution to the National Mission of
Repentance and Hope the bishop did not talk politics but sex. He
gave his hearers the sort of stuff that is handed out so freely
by the Cinema Theatres, White Slave Traffic talk, denunciations
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: side. The latter stepped toward me and motioned me to
follow him. I did so, and was led back to the colonel.
By this time I could understand a few words of their strange
language, and when the colonel asked me if I would prefer to
remain at the post as his body servant, I signified my
willingness as emphatically as possible, for I had seen
enough of the brutality of the common soldiers toward their
white slaves to have no desire to start out upon a march of
unknown length, chained by the neck, and driven on by the
great whips that a score of the soldiers carried to
accelerate the speed of their charges.
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