| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: their empire many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and
the island itself provided most of what was required by them for the uses
of life. In the first place, they dug out of the earth whatever was to be
found there, solid as well as fusile, and that which is now only a name and
was then something more than a name, orichalcum, was dug out of the earth
in many parts of the island, being more precious in those days than
anything except gold. There was an abundance of wood for carpenter's work,
and sufficient maintenance for tame and wild animals. Moreover, there were
a great number of elephants in the island; for as there was provision for
all other sorts of animals, both for those which live in lakes and marshes
and rivers, and also for those which live in mountains and on plains, so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: no aggression on my rights, I was gratified by the number and
discipline of his attendants, and the quiet profusion that
appeared to reign in his establishment. I was still so
thinking when, to my extreme surprise, the windows and
shutters of the dining-room were once more closed; the men
began to reappear from the interior and resume their stations
on the van; the last closed the door behind his exit; the van
drove away; and the house was once more left to itself,
looking blindly on the square with shuttered windows, as
though the whole affair had been a vision.
It was no vision, however; for, as I rose to my feet, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: answered the purpose very well, and I am sure their tin
bodies are a great improvement on their meat bodies."
"Very true," said the Tin Soldier.
"I quite agree with you," said the Tin Woodman. "I
happened to find my old head in your cupboard, a while
ago, and certainly it is not as desirable a head as the
tin one I now wear."
"By the way," said the Tin Soldier, "what ever became
of my old head, Ku-Klip?"
"And of the different parts of our bodies?" added the
Tin Woodman.
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