| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: sense,--an absolute command of brain as well as of muscle, a
slave-system of skilled labour,--we have never had. In our day it
is for each man to earn his own bread; so that the struggle for
existence has become universal. The work of one class does not
furnish leisure for another class. The exceptional circumstances
which freed the Athenian from industrial barbarism, and enabled
him to become the great teacher and model of culture for the
human race, have disappeared forever.
Then the general standard of comfortable living, as already
hinted, has been greatly raised, and is still rising. What would
have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penury. We have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: There were hundreds of them packed tightly together, crowding
toward her, some leaping on the backs of others, some trampled to
the ground beneath the feet of their fellows. They did not appear
to be actually attacking her, but we could not see distinctly.
This we saw in a flash and an instant later had dashed forward
into the mass with whirling spears. It was a farce, rather than a
fight.
We brought our spears down on the swarm of heads and backs
without even troubling to take aim. They pressed against our legs;
we waded through as though it were a current of water. Those we
hit either fell or ran; they waited for no second blow.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Hank touched his hoof to that of the wooden
horse.
"Let us be friends and rub noses," said the
Tiger. So Hank modestly rubbed noses with the big
beast.
The Lion merely nodded and said, as he crouched
before the mule:
"Any friend of a friend of our beloved Ruler is
a friend of the Cowardly Lion. That seems to cover
your case. If ever you need help or advice, friend
Hank, call on me.
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