| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: had been preached, even before the greater part of the French
philosophers were born. It was Bolingbroke who set up Voltaire.
Throughout the eighteenth century infidelity had celebrated
champions in England. Able writers and profound thinkers espoused
that cause, but they were never able to render it triumphant as in
France." Of these facts there can be no doubt: but the cause which
he gives for the failure of infidelity will surely sound new and
strange to those who know the English literature and history of that
century. It was, he says, "inasmuch as all those who had anything
to fear from revolutions, eagerly came to the rescue of the
established faith." Surely there was no talk of revolutions; no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass:
We were not going to Baltimore; but, in going up
the bay, we went toward Baltimore, and these pro-
tections were only intended to protect us while on
the bay.
As the time drew near for our departure, our
anxiety became more and more intense. It was truly
a matter of life and death with us. The strength of
our determination was about to be fully tested. At
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "You might string HIM up and not be called to
account for it. But how about ME?"
He took a step forward, and, looking from face to
face with a dare in his eyes, he went on:
"Is there a man among you fool enough to think
you could kill Tom Buckner and not pay for it?"
He let 'em all think of that for jest another
minute before he spoke agin. His face was as white
as a piece of paper, and his nostrils was working, but
everything else about him was quiet. He looked
the master of them all as he stood there, Colonel
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