| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: "Oh, hush, my child," answered the mother, and pressed him
closer to her side.
"Mother," whispered the boy again, laying his finger on
the stains upon her breast, "see, your dress is red! What are
these stains? Did some one hurt you?"
The mother closed his mouth with a kiss. "Dear, be still,
and listen!"
The boy obeyed. His eyes were heavy with sleep. But he
heard the last words of Winfried as he spoke of the angelic
messengers, flying over the hills of Judea and singing as they
flew. The child wondered and dreamed and listened. Suddenly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: truth;
not the interests of the proletariat, but the interests of Human
Nature,
of Man in general, who belongs to no class, has no reality, who
exists
only in the misty realm of philosophical fantasy.
This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously
and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such
mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic
innocence.
The fight of the German, and especially, of the Prussian
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: read before the council it obtained a very great success, and
Thuillier returned home radiant and much elated by the congratulations
he had received. From that moment--a moment that was marked in his
life, for even to advanced old age he still talked of the "report he
had had the honor of making to the Council-general of the Seine"--la
Peyrade went down considerably in his estimation; he felt then that he
could do very well without the barrister, and this thought of
emancipation was strengthened by another happiness which came to him
at almost the same time.
A parliamentary crisis was imminent,--a fact that caused the ministry
to think about depriving its adversaries of a theme of opposition
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