| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: extend, rather than to repress, the federal sovereignty; and the
Union offered, in several respects, the appearance of a single
and undivided people, directed in its foreign and internal policy
by a single Government. But to attain this point the people had
risen, to a certain extent, above itself.
[Footnote v: [Since 1861 the movement is certainly in the
opposite direction, and the federal power has largely increased,
and tends to further increase.]]
The Constitution had not destroyed the distinct sovereignty
of the States; and all communities, of whatever nature they may
be, are impelled by a secret propensity to assert their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: -- a dull, throbbing pain, yet mechanically his feet followed
the trail of her slayer while, subconsciously, his every sense
was upon the alert for the ever-present perils of the jungle.
Gradually the labor of his great grief brought forth another
emotion so real, so tangible, that it seemed a companion walk-
ing at his side. It was Hate -- and it brought to him a measure
of solace and of comfort, for it was a sublime hate that en-
nobled him as it has ennobled countless thousands since --
hatred for Germany and Germans. It centered about the
slayer of his mate, of course; but it included everything Ger-
man, animate or inanimate. As the thought took firm hold
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: resource, decide this contest; the appeal was the choice of the king,
and the continent hath accepted the challenge.
It hath been reported of the late Mr. Pelham (who tho' an
able minister was not without his faults) that on his being
attacked in the house of commons, on the score, that his measures
were only of a temporary kind, replied "THEY WILL LAST MY TIME."
Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies
in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be remembered
by future generations with detestation.
The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not
the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom, but of
Common Sense |
