| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: "Well, then, I myself know," answered the Czar. "I
have received anonymous communications which did not
pass through the police department; and, in the face of
events now taking place beyond the frontier, I have every
reason to believe that they are correct."
"Do you mean, sire," cried the chief of police, "that
Ivan Ogareff has a hand in this Tartar rebellion?"
"Indeed I do; and I will now tell you something which
you are ignorant of. After leaving Perm, Ivan Ogareff
crossed the Ural mountains, entered Siberia, and penetrated
the Kirghiz steppes, and there endeavored, not without suc-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation,
as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise
some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost
incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by
such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.
However, the explanation is not really difficult to find. It is
simply this. Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and
exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no
class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to
be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve
them. What is said by great employers of labour against agitators
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?
LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.
SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH
SOON our friends perish,
Soon all we cherish
Fades as days darken - goes as flowers go.
Soon in December
Over an ember,
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