| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: employing his faculties in any regular pursuit. His principles of
action were so loose, and his mind so uncultivated, that every
thing like order appeared to him in the shape of restraint; and,
like men in the savage state, he required the strong stimulus of
hope or fear, produced by wild speculations, in which the interests
of others went for nothing, to keep his spirits awake. He one time
professed patriotism, but he knew not what it was to feel honest
indignation; and pretended to be an advocate for liberty, when,
with as little affection for the human race as for individuals, he
thought of nothing but his own gratification. He was just such a
citizen, as a father. The sums he adroitly obtained by a violation
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: set itself was attained.
Ordinary, simple men with a conception of the demands of the
social and Christian Russian peasant morality lost this
conception, and found a new one, founded chiefly on the idea that
any outrage or violence was justifiable if it seemed profitable.
After living in a prison those people became conscious with the
whole of their being that, judging by what was happening to
themselves, all the moral laws, the respect and the sympathy for
others which church and the moral teachers preach, was really set
aside, and that, therefore, they, too, need not keep the laws.
Nekhludoff noticed the effects of prison life on all the convicts
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: gentlemen would not be so often in a quandary if mediaeval writers had
only taken such pains with details of contemporary manners as we take
in these days of analysis and description.
Mlle. Turquet, or Malaga, for she is better known by her pseudonym
(See /La fausse Maitresse/.), was one of the earliest parishioners of
that charming church. At the time to which this story belongs, that
lighthearted and lively damsel gladdened the existence of a notary
with a wife somewhat too bigoted, rigid, and frigid for domestic
happiness.
Now, it so fell out that one Carnival evening Maitre Cardot was
entertaining guests at Mlle. Turquet's house--Desroches the attorney,
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