| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: faith. In the present age they are in rapid decay, because their
religion is departing, and despotism only remains. Montesquieu,
who attributed to absolute power an authority peculiar to itself,
did it, as I conceive, an undeserved honor; for despotism, taken
by itself, can produce no durable results. On close inspection
we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the
cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
Whatever exertions may be made, no true power can be founded
among men which does not depend upon the free union of their
inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two
motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Adjust their staring kilts; and their swift eyes
Turn still to him who sits to supervise.
He in the midst, perched on a fallen tree,
Eyes them at labour; and, guitar on knee,
Now ministers alarm, now scatters joy,
Now twangs a halting chord, now tweaks a boy.
Thorough in all, my resolute vizier
Plays both the despot and the volunteer,
Exacts with fines obedience to my laws,
And for his music, too, exacts applause.
The Adorner of the uncomely - those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his slim stone blade. He would have preferred to use his noose,
but the foliage surrounding the huge cat precluded the possibility
of an accurate throw with the rope.
Akut had now wandered quite close beneath the tree wherein
lay the waiting death. Sheeta slowly edged his hind paws
along the branch still further beneath him, and then with
a hideous shriek he launched himself toward the great ape.
The barest fraction of a second before his spring another
beast of prey above him leaped, its weird and savage cry
mingling with his.
As the startled Akut looked up he saw the panther almost
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