| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.
These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew
that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen,
perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the
insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed
no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration
which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause
of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself
should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less
fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: his man. Then said the king in the hearing of all present, "Art
thou the devil's workman, Barlaam?" But he denied it, saying, "I
am God's workman, not the devil's. Revile me not; for I am thy
debtor to render me much thanks, because I have taught thy son to
serve God, and have turned him from error to the true God, and
have schooled him in all manner of virtue." Feigning anger,
again spake the king, "Though I ought to allow thee never a word,
and give thee no room for defence, but rather do thee to death
without question, yet such is my humanity that I will bear with
thine effrontery until on a set day I try thy cause. If thou be
persuaded by me, thou shalt receive pardon: if not, thou shalt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: money; and from early morning till evening he sauntered at
leisure
about the river or about the village; if he saw, for instance, a
peasant carting a log, or fishing, he would say: "That log's dry
wood -- it is rotten," or, "They won't bite in weather like
this." In times of drought he would declare that there would not
be a drop of rain till the frost came; and when the rains came he
would say that everything would rot in the fields, that
everything was ruined. And as he said these things he would wink
as though he knew something.
At the New Villa they burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks
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