| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: was aware of noise and people in the rear. A cavalry officer
approached the car, stared, and removed his sombrero.
"Can you tell me anything about Stewart, the American cowboy who
was captured by rebels a few days ago?" asked Madeline.
"Yes," replied the officer. "There was a skirmish over the line
between a company of Federals and a large force of guerrillas and
rebels. The Federals were driven west along the line. Stewart
is reported to have done reckless fighting and was captured. He
got a Mexican sentence. He is known here along the border, and
the news of his capture stirred up excitement. We did all we
could to get his release. The guerrillas feared to execute him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: then fell the healthful freshness of the stars, and he listened to
imaginary music in the skies. Then solitude taught him to unroll the
treasures of dreams. He passed whole hours in remembering mere
nothings, and comparing his present life with his past.
At last he grew passionately fond of the panther; for some sort of
affection was a necessity.
Whether it was that his will powerfully projected had modified the
character of his companion, or whether, because she found abundant
food in her predatory excursions in the desert, she respected the
man's life, he began to fear for it no longer, seeing her so well
tamed.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: faire." Analyse economic questions if you will: but beyond
analysis you shall not step. Any attempt to raise political
economy to its synthetic stage is to break the laws of nature, to
fight against facts--as if facts were not made to be fought
against and conquered, and put out of the way, whensoever they
interfere in the least with the welfare of any human being. The
drowning man is not to strike out for his life lest by keeping his
head above water he interfere with the laws of gravitation. Not
that the political economist, or any man, can be true to his own
fallacy. He must needs try his hand at the synthetic method
though he forbids it to the rest of the world: but the only
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