| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: are going on now...."
Then he went on abruptly to something that for a time he had
been keeping back.
"Of course just at present the church may do a confounded lot
of harm. Some of you clerical gentlemen are rather too fond of
talking socialism and even preaching socialism. Don't think I
want to be overcritical. I admit there's no end of things to be
said for a proper sort of socialism, Ruskin, and all that. We're
all Socialists nowadays. Ideals--excellent. But--it gets
misunderstood. It gives the men a sense of moral support. It
makes them fancy that they are It. Encourages them to forget
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: was with this weapon, apparently, that Mr. and Mrs. Dewar had
been attacked. Under the bed was a candlestick belonging also to
the Dewars, which had been used by the murderer in setting fire
to the bed. The front window of the sitting-room was open, there
were marks of boot nails on the sill, and on the grass in front
of the window a knife was found. An attempt had been made to
ransack a chest of drawers in the bedroom, but some articles of
jewellery lying in one of the drawers, and a ring on the
dressing-table had been left untouched. As far as was known, Mr.
and Mrs. Dewar were a perfectly happy and united couple. Dewar
had been last seen alive about ten o'clock on the Saturday night
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: element, the point of audacity with which the fabulist was
wont to mock at his readers. And still more so is this the
case with others. 'The Horse and the Fly' states one of the
unanswerable problems of life in quite a realistic and
straightforward way. A fly startles a cab-horse, the coach
is overset; a newly-married pair within and the driver, a man
with a wife and family, are all killed. The horse continues
to gallop off in the loose traces, and ends the tragedy by
running over an only child; and there is some little pathetic
detail here introduced in the telling, that makes the
reader's indignation very white-hot against some one. It
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