| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: and I will set between you and them a barrier.
'Bring me pigs of iron until they fill up the space between the
two mountain sides.' Said he, 'Blow until it makes it a fire.' Said
he, 'Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten brass.' they could
not scale it, and they could not tunnel it.
Said he, 'This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my
Lord comes to pass, He will make it as dust, for the promise of my
Lord is true.'
And we left some of them to surge on that day over others, and the
trumpet will be blown, and we will gather them together.
And we will set forth hell on that day before the misbelievers,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: from their blankets by a wild-eyed Swede that strove to force upon
them an ink-scrawled and very blotty piece of paper.
"Ay tank Ay take my money back," he gibbered. "Ay tank Ay take my
money back."
Tears were in his eyes and throat. They ran down his cheeks as he
knelt before them and pleaded and implored. But Bill and Kink did
not laugh. They might have been harder hearted.
"First time I ever hear a man squeal over a minin' deal," Bill
said. "An' I make free to say 'tis too onusual for me to savvy."
"Same here," Kink Mitchell remarked. "Minin' deals is like horse-
tradin'."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: could not annul this act. They had to content themselves with tacking
to it the limitation a six months' residence. The old organization of
the administrative law, of municipal government, of court procedures of
the army, etc., remained untouched, or, where the constitution did
change them, the change affected their index, not their subject; their
name, not their substance.
The inevitable "General Staff" of the "freedoms" of 1848--personal
freedom, freedom of the press, of speech, of association and of
assemblage, freedom of instruction, of religion, etc.--received a
constitutional uniform that rendered them invulnerable. Each of these
freedoms is proclaimed the absolute right of the French citizen, but
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