| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: his round of the patients. When he had finished he came back and sat
near me, reading, so that I did not feel too lonely whilst I worked.
How good and thoughtful he is. The world seems full of good men,
even if there are monsters in it.
Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary
of the Professor's perturbation at reading something in an evening
paper at the station at Exeter, so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps
his newspapers, I borrowed the files of `The Westminster Gazette'
and `The Pall Mall Gazette' and took them to my room.
I remember how much the `Dailygraph' and `The Whitby Gazette',
of which I had made cuttings, had helped us to understand
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: unsettled government can be minimized. To minimize
these risks the financiers call in the assistance of the
military and naval forces of the country which they
are momentarily asserting to be theirs. In order to
have the support of public opinion in this demand
they have recourse to the power of the Press.
The Press is the second great factor to which
critics of capitalism point when they wish to prove
that capitalism is the source of modern war. Since
the running of a big newspaper requires a large capital,
the proprietors of important organs necessarily
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: XVII. NATIVES
Up to this time, save for a few Masai at the very beginning of
our trip, we had seen no natives at all. Only lately, the night
of the lion dance, one of the Wanderobo-the forest hunters-had
drifted in to tell us of buffalo and to get some meat. He was a
simple soul, small and capable, of a beautiful red-brown, with
his hair done up in a tight, short queue. He wore three skewers
about six inches long thrust through each of his ears, three
strings of blue beads on his neck, a bracelet tight around his
upper arm, a bangle around his ankle, a pair of rawhide sandals,
and about a half yard of cotton cloth which he hung from one
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