| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: her long draperies, resembled two stars in the rift of a cloud. Before
the sun set he withdrew.
The Ancients felt themselves relieved of a great anxiety, when he left
Carthage. The people had received him with even more enthusiastic
acclamations than on the first occasion. If Hamilcar and the King of
the Numidians triumphed alone over the Mercenaries it would be
impossible to resist them. To weaken Barca they therefore resolved to
make the aged Hanno, him whom they loved, a sharer in the deliverance
of Carthage.
He proceeded immediately towards the western provinces, to take his
vengeance in the very places which had witnessed his shame. But the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: eighth grade. But their educational equipment was even more limited
than the grade they attended would indicate. Of the children applying
to go to work 1,803 had not advanced further than the first grade even
when they had gone to school at all; 3,379 could not even sign their
own names legibly, and nearly 2,000 of them could not write at all.
The report brings automatically into view the vicious circle of child-
labor, illiteracy, bodily and mental defect, poverty and delinquency.
And like all reports on child labor, the large family and reckless
breeding looms large in the background as one of the chief factors in
the problem.
Despite all our boasting of the American public school, of the equal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: admit, it is different. For these I recognise the necessity of a
capital[10] to begin with. I am not, however, without good hope that
the citizens of this state will contribute heartily to such an object,
when I reflect on the large sums subscribed by the state on various
late occasions, as, for instance, when reinforcements were sent to the
Arcadians under the command of Lysistratus,[11] and again at the date
of the generalship of Hegesileos.[12] I am well aware that ships of
war are frequently despatched and that too[13] although it is
uncertain whether the venture will be for the better or for the worse,
and the only certainty is that the contributor will not recover the
sum subscribed nor have any further share in the object for which he
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