| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: So you do condescend to help me now.
[They hang their heads.]
No hope to have redress? My body shall
Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.
[They shake their heads.]
Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,
Before that England give the French the foil.
[They depart.]
See, they forsake me! Now the time is come
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
ISA 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand
is mine indignation.
ISA 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and
to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
ISA 10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
ISA 10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
ISA 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri:
``Le Sang Innocent Veng.'' In the records of the
tats Gnraux there were many votes in favour of this
reform, which Louis XVI. caused to be introduced on May 8, 1788.
In 1790 Duport brought in a measure in the Constituent Assembly;
but it was rejected after a short discussion in February, 1791,
during which the same practical objections were urged as have been
repeated up to the present time. Nevertheless, the Convention
decreed special indemnities, as, for instance. a thousand francs
in 1793 for one Busset, ``for arbitrary imprisonment and
prosecution.'' In 1823 the above-named Society at Chlonssur-
Marne proposed the same subject for an essay; and it has been the
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