| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: And a child brought up on chicken and rice-pudding must be
different to a child that eats Spickgans and liver sausages.
And they are different; I can't tell in what way, but they
certainly are; and I think if I steadily describe <188> them
from the materials I have collected the last three days,
I may perhaps hit on the points of difference."
"Why bother about points of difference?" asked Irais.
"I should write some little thing, bringing in the usual
parts of the picture, such as knees and toes, and make
it mildly pathetic."
"But it is by no means an easy thing for me to do,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: the purchasers from the State of Ohio and the purchasers from the
Union, and not in the names of Ohio and the Union. But what would
become of this legal fiction if the Federal purchaser was
confirmed in his right by the courts of the Union, whilst the
other competitor was ordered to retain possession by the
tribunals of the State of Ohio?]
He would have but a partial knowledge of the world who
should imagine that it is possible, by the aid of legal fictions,
to prevent men from finding out and employing those means of
gratifying their passions which have been left open to them; and
it may be doubted whether the American legislators, when they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: claimed superiority, cited it as an example of the widower's
meanness. But by other persons it was so much admired that
Trefusis hoped it would ensure the prosperity of its designer.
The contrary happened. When the mason attempted to return to his
ordinary work he was informed that he had contravened trade
usage, and that his former employers would have nothing more to
say to him. On applying for advice and assistance to the
trades-union of which he was a member he received the same reply,
and was further reproached for treachery to his fellow-workmen.
He returned to Trefusis to say that the tombstone job had ruined
him. Trefusis, enraged, wrote an argumentative letter to the
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