| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: by the paltry motives of plunder, and pay, and personal
distinction,--you, whose deep knowledge renders you so valuable a
counsellor,--is it YOU whom I find striving with a man like
Dalgetty, for the privilege of trampling the remains of life out
of so contemptible an enemy as lies there? Come, my friend, I
have other work for you. This victory, skilfully improved, shall
win Seaforth to our party. It is not disloyalty, but despair of
the good cause, that has induced him to take arms against us.
These arms, in this moment of better augury, he may be brought to
unite with ours. I shall send my gallant friend, Colonel Hay, to
him, from this very field of battle, but he must be united in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: in obedience to their Father's will and in order to make men as good as
they could, gave to the liver the power of divination, which is never
active when men are awake or in health; but when they are under the
influence of some disorder or enthusiasm then they receive intimations,
which have to be interpreted by others who are called prophets, but should
rather be called interpreters of prophecy; after death these intimations
become unintelligible. The spleen which is situated in the neighbourhood,
on the left side, keeps the liver bright and clean, as a napkin does a
mirror, and the evacuations of the liver are received into it; and being a
hollow tissue it is for a time swollen with these impurities, but when the
body is purged it returns to its natural size.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: Just a moment previous to the trouble with Henry, Mr. Hamilton
_mildly_ said--and this gave me the unmistakable clue to the
cause of our arrest--"Perhaps we had now better make a search for
those protections, which we understand Frederick has written for
himself and the rest." Had these passes been found, they would
have been point blank proof against us, and would have confirmed
all the statements of our betrayer. Thanks to the resistance of
Henry, the excitement produced by the scuffle drew all attention
in that direction, and I succeeded in flinging my pass,
unobserved, into the fire. The confusion attendant upon the
scuffle, and the apprehension of further trouble, perhaps, led
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