| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Yes, there were always white men. Somewhere along the coast
or even in the depths of the jungle itself there were white men.
To them he would be a welcome visitor. They would befriend him.
And there were also the great apes--the friends of his father
and of Akut. How glad they would be to receive the son of
Tarzan of the Apes! He hoped that he could come upon them before
he found a trading post upon the coast. He wanted to be able to
tell his father that he had known his old friends of the jungle,
that he had hunted with them, that he had joined with them in
their savage life, and their fierce, primeval ceremonies--the
strange ceremonies of which Akut had tried to tell him. It cheered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: exceptions. The French Revolution brought those exceptions out into
strong light; and like every day of judgment, divided between the
good and the evil. But it lies not in exceptions to save a caste,
or an institution; and a few Richelieus, Liancourts, Rochefoucaulds,
Noailles, Lafayettes were but the storks among the cranes involved
in the wholesale doom due not to each individual, but to a system
and a class.
Profligacy, pride, idleness--these are the vices which we have to
lay to the charge of the Teutonic Nobility of the Ancien Regime in
France especially; and (though in a less degree perhaps) over the
whole continent of Europe. But below them, and perhaps the cause of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: pages of history since the beginning. Are we to sit down under this
forever? Why should we make no attempt to change this for the better in
the pages of history that are yet to be written? Other evils have been
made better. In this very war, the outcry against Germany has been
because she deliberately brought back into war the cruelties and the
horrors of more barbarous times, and with cold calculations of
premeditated science made these horrors worse. Our recoil from this deed
of hers and what it has brought upon the world is seen in our wish for a
League of Nations. The thought of any more battles, tenches, submarines,
air-raids, starvation, misery, is so unbearable to our bruised and
stricken minds, that we have put it into words whose import is, Let us
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