| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Cum ex captivis quaereret Caesar quam ob rem Ariovistus proelio non
decertaret, hanc reperiebat causam, quod apud Germanos ea consuetudo esset
ut matres familiae eorum sortibus et vaticinationibus declararent utrum
proelium committi ex usu esset necne; eas ita dicere: non esse fas
Germanos superare, si ante novam lunam proelio contendissent.
Postridie eius diei Caesar praesidio utrisque castris quod satis esse
visum est reliquit, alarios omnes in conspectu hostium pro castris
minoribus constituit, quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum pro
hostium numero valebat, ut ad speciem alariis uteretur; ipse triplici
instructa acie usque ad castra hostium accessit. Tum demum necessario
Germani suas copias castris eduxerunt generatimque constituerunt paribus
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: and her daughters had scarcely begun the history of their
acquaintance with Mr. James Morland, before she remembered
that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy
with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe;
and that he had spent the last week of the Christmas
vacation with his family, near London.
The whole being explained, many obliging things were
said by the Miss Thorpes of their wish of being better
acquainted with her; of being considered as already friends,
through the friendship of their brothers, etc., which
Catherine heard with pleasure, and answered with all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: shall do with it."
"But why do you say 'we'? Can you and I do all this?"
"My boy, are not you and I free citizens; part of the people, the
Commons--as the good old word runs--of this country? And are we
not--or ought we not to be in time--beside that, educated men? By
the people, remember, I mean, not only the hand-working man who
has just got a vote; I mean the clergy of all denominations; and
the gentlemen of the press; and last, but not least, the
scientific men. If those four classes together were to tell every
government--'Free water we will have, and as much as we reasonably
choose;' and tell every candidate for the House of Commons:
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