| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: 4. The popular entity and its constituent elements
BOOK II
THE FORMS OF MENTALITY PREVALENT DURING REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I. INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS OF CHARACTER IN TIME OF
REVOLUTION
1. Transformations of Personality
2. Elements of character predominant in time of Revolution
CHAPTER II. THE MYSTIC MENTALITY AND THE JACOBIN MENTALITY
1. Classification of mentalities predominant in time of
Revolution
2. The Mystic Mentality
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: assure you, sir; I always thought him silly and impertinent and
disagreeable, and now he is grown worse than ever. I would rather work for
my bread than marry him. I do not know how to apologize enough for this
letter; I know it is taking so great a liberty. I am aware how dreadfully
angry it will make mamma, but I remember the risk.
I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
F. S. V.
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LADY SUSAN TO MRS. JOHNSON
Churchhill.
This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: pressing his mother and his sister to him with a strength in which he
seemed to put all his life.
"How is it we do not die of this?" said Denise to her mother as they
passed through the wicket.
It was nearly eight o'clock when this parting took place. At the gate
of the prison the two women met the Abbe de Rastignac, who asked them
news of the prisoner.
"He will no doubt be reconciled with God," said Denise. "If repentance
has not yet begun, he is very near it."
The bishop was soon after informed that the clergy would triumph on
this occasion, and that the criminal would go to the scaffold with the
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