| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: same social status. Examples in point are the military and
priestly castes.
The CLASS is formed of individuals of diverse origin, linked
together not by a community of beliefs, as are the members of a
sect, or by common professional occupations, as are the members
of a caste, but by certain interests and certain habits of life
and education almost identical. The middle class and the
agricultural class are examples.
Being only concerned in this work with heterogeneous crowds, and
reserving the study of homogeneous crowds (sects, castes, and
classes) for another volume, I shall not insist here on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: through the clear air; and the bells were chiming for yet another
service.
Suddenly we sighted the three girls standing, with a fourth sister,
in front of a shop on the wide selvage of the roadway. We had been
very merry with them a little while ago, to be sure. But what was
the etiquette of Origny? Had it been a country road, of course we
should have spoken to them; but here, under the eyes of all the
gossips, ought we to do even as much as bow? I consulted the
CIGARETTE.
'Look,' said he.
I looked. There were the four girls on the same spot; but now four
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: hers had been, and the touch of his hand upon his face brought back
the overpowering sense of unreality. This body of his was unreal;
the whole world was unreal.
"What's happened?" he began. "Why did I ask you to marry me?
How did it happen?"
"Did you ask me to marry you?" she wondered. They faded far away
from each other, and neither of them could remember what had been said.
"We sat upon the ground," he recollected.
"We sat upon the ground," she confirmed him. The recollection of sitting
upon the ground, such as it was, seemed to unite them again, and they
walked on in silence, their minds sometimes working with difficulty
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