| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: given amply; the cry for circuses will be the louder, and if
the life of our descendants be such as we have conceived,
there are two beloved pleasures on which they will be likely
to fall back: the pleasures of intrigue and of sedition.
In all this I have supposed the ant-heap to be financially
sound. I am no economist, only a writer of fiction; but even
as such, I know one thing that bears on the economic question
- I know the imperfection of man's faculty for business. The
Anarchists, who count some rugged elements of common sense
among what seem to me their tragic errors, have said upon
this matter all that I could wish to say, and condemned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: O, hold me not with silence over-long!
Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
I 'll lop a member off and give it you
In earnest of a further benefit,
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?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: INTRODUCTION. - I first heard this legend of my own country
from that friend of men of letters, Mr. Alfred Nutt, "there
in roaring London's central stream," and since the ballad
first saw the light of day in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, Mr. Nutt
and Lord Archibald Campbell have been in public controversy
on the facts. Two clans, the Camerons and the Campbells, lay
claim to this bracing story; and they do well: the man who
preferred his plighted troth to the commands and menaces of
the dead is an ancestor worth disputing. But the Campbells
must rest content: they have the broad lands and the broad
page of history; this appanage must be denied them; for
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