| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: by their deeds during the next generation; or sink into the
condition of mere rich men, exciting, by their luxury and laziness,
nothing but envy and contempt.
Meanwhile, behind all classes and social forces--I had almost said,
above them all--stands a fourth estate, which will, ultimately,
decide the form which English society is to take: a Press as
different from the literary class of the Ancien Regime as is
everything else English; and different in this--that it is free.
The French Revolution, like every revolution (it seems to me) which
has convulsed the nations of Europe for the last eighty years, was
caused immediately--whatever may have been its more remote causes--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: besides, I can read between the lines! I just feel they would be
congenial. If they know what's best for themselves, they would
write to each other right away."
"But wouldn't you love to be there and see them meet!" exclaimed
Condy.
"Can't we fix it up some way," said Blix, "to bring these two
together--to help them out in some way?"
Condy smote the table and jumped to his feet.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: to invite by public proclamation all whom it may concern to bring
their slaves, and to buy up those produced? Assuming the purchase to
be effected, is it credible that people will hesitate to hire from the
state rather than from the private owner, and actually on the same
terms? People have at all events no hesitation at present in hiring
consecrated grounds, sacred victims,[19] houses, etc., or in
purchasing the right of farming taxes from the state. To ensure the
preservation of the purchased property, the treasury can take the same
securities precisely from the lessee as it does from those who
purchase the right of farming its taxes. Indeed, fraudulent dealing is
easier on the part of the man who has purchased such a right than of
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