| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies
without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of
and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: consequences--diseases and the like?
I believe, said Protagoras, that the world in general would answer as you
do.
And in causing diseases do they not cause pain? and in causing poverty do
they not cause pain;--they would agree to that also, if I am not mistaken?
Protagoras assented.
Then I should say to them, in my name and yours: Do you think them evil
for any other reason, except because they end in pain and rob us of other
pleasures:--there again they would agree?
We both of us thought that they would.
And then I should take the question from the opposite point of view, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "Help! she's strangling me, Catherine," cried Nicolas, in a stifled
voice.
La Pechina uttered piercing screams, which Catherine tried to choke by
putting her hands over the girl's mouth, but she bit them and drew
blood. It was at this moment that Blondet, the countess, and the abbe
appeared at the edge of the wood.
"Here are those Aigues people!" exclaimed Catherine, helping Genevieve
to rise.
"Do you want to live?" hissed Nicolas in the child's ear.
"What then?" she asked.
"Tell them we were all playing, and I'll forgive you," said Nicolas,
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