| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: to explain their ferocity.
That arose from other sources. Apostles of a severe faith, the
delegates of the Convention, like the inquisitors of the Holy
Office, could feel, can have felt, no pity for their victims.
Freed, moreover, from all the bonds of tradition and law,
they could give rein to the most savage instincts that primitive
animality has left in us.
Civilisation restrains these instincts, but they never die. The
need to kill which makes the hunter is a permanent proof of this.
M. Cunisset-Carnot has expressed in the following lines the grip
of this hereditary tendency, which, in the pursuit of the most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: "Dear Mr. Quatermain, dear Mr. Quatermain!" she murmured in her
sweet voice, then paused.
Now at last words came to me. "I thought you were both dead," I
said. "Tell me, are you really alive?"
She bent down and kissed my brow, while Anscombe took my hand.
"Now you know," she answered. "We are both of us alive and
well."
"Thank God!" I exclaimed. "Kaatje swore that she saw you dead
and buried."
"One sees strange things in the Black Kloof," replied Anscombe
speaking for the first time, "and much has happened to us since
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: escape the fascination . . . However! . . . Well the greatest
portion of the press were screeching in all possible tones, like a
confounded company of parrots instructed by some devil with a taste
for practical jokes, that the financier de Barral was helping the
great moral evolution of our character towards the newly-discovered
virtue of Thrift. He was helping it by all these great
establishments of his, which made the moral merits of Thrift
manifest to the most callous hearts, simply by promising to pay ten
per cent. interest on all deposits. And you didn't want necessarily
to belong to the well-to-do classes in order to participate in the
advantages of virtue. If you had but a spare sixpence in the world
Chance |
