| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: external resemblance; but such resemblances will not reveal--will rather
tend to conceal their blood-relationship to their proper lines of descent.
We can also understand the apparent paradox, that the very same characters
are analogical when one class or order is compared with another, but give
true affinities when the members of the same class or order are compared
one with another: thus the shape of the body and fin-like limbs are only
analogical when whales are compared with fishes, being adaptations in both
classes for swimming through the water; but the shape of the body and
fin-like limbs serve as characters exhibiting true affinity between the
several members of the whale family; for these cetaceans agree in so many
characters, great and small, that we cannot doubt that they have inherited
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his Majesty!'
Who hateth him and honours not his father,
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.
ALL.
God save the king! God save the king!
CADE.
What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave?--
And you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you needs be
hang'd with your about your necks? Hath my sword therefore
broke through London gates, that you should leave me at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: fund to educate the children of members killed in the mills. When
such a death happened, the union appointed a committee to stand
at the office window on pay-day and ask every man to contribute
something from his wages. There is a charitable spirit among men
who labor together and they always gave freely to any fund for
the widow and orphans. This spirit is the force that lifts man
above the beasts and makes his civilization. There is no mercy in
brute nature. The hawk eats the sparrow; the fox devours the
young rabbit; the cat leaps from under a bush and kills the
mother robin while the young are left to starve in the nest.
There is neither right nor wrong among the brutes because they
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