| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: portion of its food from Russian corn lands.
That is the position, those the natural tendencies at work.
But opposed to these tendencies are the united efforts of the
Communists and of those who, leaving the question of
Communism discreetly aside, work with them for the sake of
preventing such collapse of Russian civilization. They
recognize the existence of every one of the tendencies I have
described, but they are convinced that every one of these
tendencies will be arrested. They believe that the country
will not conquer the town but the reverse. So far from
expecting the unproductive stagnation described in the last
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: THE THREE GUIDES. [First published in FRASER'S MAGAZINE.]
Spirit of Earth! thy hand is chill:
I've felt its icy clasp;
And, shuddering, I remember still
That stony-hearted grasp.
Thine eye bids love and joy depart:
Oh, turn its gaze from me!
It presses down my shrinking heart;
I will not walk with thee!
"Wisdom is mine," I've heard thee say:
"Beneath my searching eye
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: balls, hid behind his servant, who was killed. (4)
Meantime the outposts were forced, and the army of Wallace
was enveloped in the embrace of a hideous boa-constrictor -
tightening, closing, crushing every semblance of life from
the victim enclosed in his toils. The flanking parties of
horse were forced in upon the centre, and though, as even
Turner grants, they fought with desperation, a general flight
was the result.
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or
wail the death-wail over them. Those who sacrificed
themselves for the peace, the liberty, and the religion of
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