| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: the terror of succeeding generations."
This liberty--too much akin to anarchy, in which indeed it issued
for awhile--seems to have asserted itself in continual petty
resistance to officials whom they did not respect, and who, in their
turn, were more than a little afraid of the very men out of whose
ranks they had sprung.
The French Government--one may say, every Government on the
Continent in those days--had the special weakness of all
bureaucracies; namely, that want of moral force which compels them
to fall back at last on physical force, and transforms the ruler
into a bully, and the soldier into a policeman and a gaoler. A
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: populo.
15. [40] Contritionis veritas penas querit et amat, Veniarum autem
largitas relaxat et odisse facit, saltem occasione.
16. [41] Caute sunt venie apostolice predicande, ne populus false
intelligat eas preferri ceteris bonis operibus charitatis.
17. [42] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Pape mens non est,
redemptionem veniarum ulla ex parte comparandam esse operibus
misericordie.
18. [43] Docendi sunt christiani, quod dans pauperi aut mutuans
egenti melius facit quam si venias redimereet.
19. [44] Quia per opus charitatis crescit charitas et fit homo
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: a crooked spine. And, anyway, after to-night, you'll be living
swell again.
She leaned toward him, staring at him in the semi-darkness. That
premonitory vista was widening; his words seemed suddenly to set her
brain in tumult. After to-night! She was to resume, after to-night,
the character that was supposed to lay behind the disguise of Gypsy
Nan! She was to resume her supposedly true character - that of
Pierre Danglar's wife!
"What do you mean?" she demanded tensely.
"Aw, come on!" he said abruptly. "This isn't the place to talk.
Pierre wants you at once. That's what the message was for. I
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