| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: appeared to note it with high amusement--than the way, making
things out already so much for himself, he was at last throwing
precautions to the winds. They were neither more nor less, she and
the child's mother, than old school-friends--friends who had
scarcely met for years but whom this unlooked-for chance had
brought together with a rush. It was a relief, Miss Gostrey hinted,
to feel herself no longer groping; she was unaccustomed to grope
and as a general thing, he might well have seen, made straight
enough for her clue. With the one she had now picked up in her
hands there need be at least no waste of wonder. "She's coming to
see me--that's for YOU," Strether's counsellor continued; "but I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: /my/ time."
One thought alone seems to make these more intractable people
anxious. I thrust it in as my last stimulant when everything
else has failed. "There will be /frightful/ trouble with
labour after the war," I say.
They try to persuade themselves that military discipline is
breaking in labour....
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What does British labour think of the outlook after the war?
As a distinctive thing British labour does not think. "Class-
conscious labour," as the Marxists put it, scarcely exists in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . .
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
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