| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: in its history, the adolescence, so to speak, of mankind. It
is an idea that seizes the imagination. There is a flow of
new ideas abroad, he thinks, widening realizations,
unprecedented hopes and fears. There is a consciousness of
new powers and new responsibilities. We are sharing the
adolescence of our race. It is giving history a new and more
intimate meaning for us. It is bringing us into directer
relation with public affairs,--making them matter as formerly
they didn't seem to matter. That idea of the bright little
private life has to go by the board."
"I suppose it has," she said, meditatively, as though she had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: "They blew off the cart and the fellow said I could keep 'em.
But you can have 'em," he announced.
Ann Eliza rose from her seat at the sewing-machine and tried
to take the flowers from him.
"They ain't for you; they're for her," he sturdily objected;
and Evelina held out her hand for the jonquils.
After Johnny had gone she lay and looked at them without
speaking. Ann Eliza, who had gone back to the machine, bent her
head over the seam she was stitching; the click, click, click of
the machine sounded in her ear like the tick of Ramy's clock, and
it seemed to her that life had gone backward, and that Evelina,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Most certainly there is (he answered): it still remains for him to
learn particulars--to know, that is, what things he has to do, and
when and how to do them; or else, if ignorant of these details, the
profit of this bailiff in the abstract may prove no greater than the
doctor's who pays a most precise attention to a sick man, visiting him
late and early, but what will serve to ease his patient's pains[2] he
knows not.
[2] Lit. "what it is to the advantage of his patient to do, is beyond
his ken."
Soc. But suppose him to have learnt the whole routine of business,
will he need aught else, or have we found at last your bailiff
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