| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: talk a bit. How would you like to be a marquis and have a castle in
France with a hundred thousand dollars?'
"For a moment I think I will lick him; then I laugh. 'Very well
indeed,' says I, 'and also a handful of stars for buckshot, and the
new moon for a canoe.'
"'But no,' answers the man. 'I am earnest, Monsieur Lamotte. I
want to talk a long talk with you. Do you permit that I accompany
you to your residence?'
"Residence! You know that little farm-house of logs where my mother
lives,--you saw it last summer. But of course it is a pretty good
house. It is clean. It is warm. So I bring the man home in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: Prince, and sometimes used harsh words in addressing
them, he was intelligent enough to know them to be his
friends, and to know that King Gos and his people were
his foes. In sudden anger, provoked by the sight of the
warriors and the knowledge that he was in the power of
the dangerous men of Regos, Bilbil butted his head
against the door of his room and burst it open. Then he
ran to the head of the staircase and saw King Gos
coming up the stairs followed by a long line of his
chief captains and warriors.
The goat lowered his head, trembling with rage and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: that day that heralds the death of war as a means of arranging human
differences. No tinsel of trumpets and flags will ultimately seduce women
into the insanity of recklessly destroying life, or gild the wilful taking
of life with any other name than that of murder, whether it be the
slaughter of the million or of one by one. And this will be, not because
with the sexual function of maternity necessarily goes in the human
creature a deeper moral insight, or a loftier type of social instinct than
that which accompanies the paternal. Men have in all ages led as nobly as
women in many paths of heroic virtue, and toward the higher social
sympathies; in certain ages, being freer and more widely cultured, they
have led further and better. The fact that woman has no inherent all-round
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