| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: "Beneficient in what direction?" insisted Britten. "I want to know
where you think you are going."
"Amelioration of Social Conditions," said Lewis.
"That's only a phrase!"
"You wouldn't have me sketch bills at dinner?"
"I'd like you to indicate directions," said Britten, and waited.
"Upward and On," said Lewis with conscious neatness, and turned to
ask Mrs. Bunting Harblow about her little boy's French.
For a time talk frothed over Britten's head, but the natural
mischief in Mrs. Millingham had been stirred, and she was presently
echoing his demand in lisping, quasi-confidential undertones. "What
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: by this bourgeois movement. German Socialism forgot, in the nick
of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was,
presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its
corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political
constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment
was the object of the pending struggle in Germany.
To the absolute governments, with their following of parsons,
professors, country squires and officials, it served as a welcome
scarecrow against the threatening bourgeoisie.
It was a sweet finish after the bitter pills of floggings and
bullets with which these same governments, just at that time,
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: near to Camragen, and there sweetly rested.' The visible band
of God protected and directed him. Dragoons were turned aside
from the bramble-bush where he lay hidden. Miracles were
performed for his behoof. `I got a horse and a woman to carry
the child, and came to the same mountain, where I wandered by
the mist before; it is commonly known by the name of
Kellsrhins: when we came to go up the mountain, there came on
a great rain, which we thought was the occasion of the child's
weeping, and she wept so bitterly, that all we could do could
not divert her from it, so that she was ready to burst. When
we got to the top of the mountain, where the Lord had been
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