| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: when it begins to overflow the banks. Its channel is even here so
wide, that a ball-shot from a musket can scarce reach the farther
bank. Here is neither boat nor bridge, and the river is so full of
hippopotami, or river-horses, and crocodiles, that it is impossible
to swim over without danger of being devoured. The only way of
passing it is upon floats, which they guide as well as they can with
long poles. Nor is even this way without danger, for these
destructive animals overturn the floats, and tear the passengers in
pieces. The river horse, which lives only on grass and branches of
trees, is satisfied with killing the men, but the crocodile being
more voracious, feeds upon the carcases.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: in the north. He was a forcible, hard, and tactless man, and only
I had been able to control and soften him. It was on his account
even more than my own, I think, that the others had been so
dismayed at my retreat. So this question about what he had done
reawakened my old interest in the life I had put aside just for
a moment.
"'I have taken no heed of any news for many days,' I said.
'What has Evesham been saying?'
"And with that the man began, nothing loth, and I must confess
even I was struck by Evesham's reckless folly in the wild and
threatening words he had used. And this messenger they had sent to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: the value and circulation of money: If, notwithstanding this
prohibition, a State passes a law of this kind, with which the
interested parties refuse to comply because it is contrary to the
Constitution, the case must come before a Federal court, because
it arises under the laws of the United States. Again, if
difficulties arise in the levying of import duties which have
been voted by Congress, the Federal court must decide the case,
because it arises under the interpretation of a law of the United
States.
This rule is in perfect accordance with the fundamental
principles of the Federal Constitution. The Union, as it was
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