| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: daughters of the race. My strain has remained clearer
than the rest because for countless ages my foremothers were
high priestesses--the sacred office descends from mother
to daughter. Our husbands are chosen for us from the noblest
in the land. The most perfect man, mentally and physically,
is selected to be the husband of the high priestess."
"From what I saw of the gentlemen above," said Tarzan,
with a grin, "there should be little trouble in choosing from
among them."
The girl looked at him quizzically for a moment.
"Do not be sacrilegious," she said. "They are very holy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: to God, that he is the privilege of a finer and better sort to which
we of course belong; that he is no more the God of the card-sharper
or the pickpocket or the "smart" woman or the loan-monger or the
village oaf than he is of the swine in the sty. But are we
justified in thus limiting God to the measure of our moral and
intellectual understandings? Because some people seem to me
steadfastly and consistently base or hopelessly and incurably dull
and confused, does it follow that there are not phases, albeit I
have never chanced to see them, of exaltation in the one case and
illumination in the other? And may I not be a little restricting my
perception of Good? While I have been ready enough to pronounce
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: and then returned the bird otherwise intact to the servant
who had brought it in, who disappeared with it before the
Musketeer had time to examine the variations which
disappointment produces upon faces, according to the
characters and temperaments of those who experience it.
In the place of the fowl a dish of haricot beans made its
appearance--an enormous dish in which some bones of mutton
that at first sight one might have believed to have some
meat on them pretended to show themselves.
But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their
lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
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