| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: and to provide for the general exigencies of the people. It was
as impossible to determine beforehand, with any degree of
accuracy, the share of authority which each of two governments
was to enjoy, as to foresee all the incidents in the existence of
a nation.
The obligations and the claims of the Federal Government
were simple and easily definable, because the Union had been
formed with the express purpose of meeting the general exigencies
of the people; but the claims and obligations of the States were,
on the other hand, complicated and various, because those
Governments had penetrated into all the details of social life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: The apprentice is nearer the long long thoughts of boyhood, and
his imagination rides cap-a-pie through the chambers of his
brain, seeking some knightly quest in honour of that Fair Lady,
the last but one of the girl apprentices to the dress-making
upstairs. He inclines rather to street fighting against
revolutionaries--because then she could see him from the window.
Jerking them back to the present comes the puffy little
shop-walker, with a paper in his hand. The apprentice becomes
extremely active. The shopwalker eyes the goods in hand.
"Hoopdriver," he says, "how's that line of g-sez-x ginghams ? "
Hoopdriver returns from an imaginary triumph over the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: She left, 'mid winter's sleet and rain,
This world for Heaven's far shore.
On Beulah's hills she wanders now,
On Eden's tranquil plain;
To her shall Jane hereafter go,
She ne'er shall come to Jane!
THE TEACHER'S MONOLOGUE.
The room is quiet, thoughts alone
People its mute tranquillity;
The yoke put off, the long task done,--
I am, as it is bliss to be,
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