| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: though retaining to the present day, and especially
since the outbreak of the war, much more of the
original Socialist ardor. It aimed always at
co-operation with the industrial organizations of
wage-earners, and, chiefly through its efforts, the
Labor Party[20] was formed in 1900 out of a
combination of the Trade Unions and the political
Socialists. To this party, since 1909, all the important
Unions have belonged, but in spite of the fact
that its strength is derived from Trade Unions, it
has stood always for political rather than industrial
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: as a part of the habitual furniture of London drawing rooms,
struck her as stars fallen from the firmament and become palpable--
revealing also sometimes, on contact, qualities not to
have been predicted of sidereal bodies. Bessie, who knew
so many of her contemporaries by reputation, had a good many
personal disappointments; but, on the other hand, she had
innumerable satisfactions and enthusiasms, and she communicated
the emotions of either class to a dear friend, of her own sex,
in Boston, with whom she was in voluminous correspondence.
Some of her reflections, indeed, she attempted to impart
to Lord Lambeth, who came almost every day to Jones's Hotel,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: of pale courtiers by his side. At first, as he spoke,
there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction
of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now,
with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the
speaker. But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad
assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were
found none who put forth hand to seize him; so that, unimpeded, he
passed within a yard of the prince's person; and, while the vast
assembly, as if with one impulse, shrank from the centres of the
rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the
same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the
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