| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: determine which side of battle is in the wrong. Neither does a
great nation send its poor little boys to jail for stealing six
walnuts; and allow its bankrupts to steal their hundreds of
thousands with a bow, and its bankers, rich with poor men's savings,
to close their doors "under circumstances over which they have no
control," with a "by your leave;" and large landed estates to be
bought by men who have made their money by going with armed steamers
up and down the China Seas, selling opium at the cannon's mouth, and
altering, for the benefit of the foreign nation, the common
highwayman's demand of "your money OR your life," into that of "your
money AND your life." Neither does a great nation allow the lives
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: floating case. The last survivor of all of us on board the Nautilus
will throw this case into the sea, and it will go whither it is borne
by the waves."
This man's name! his history written by himself!
His mystery would then be revealed some day.
"Captain," I said, "I can but approve of the idea that makes you act thus.
The result of your studies must not be lost. But the means you employ seem
to me to be primitive. Who knows where the winds will carry this case,
and in whose hands it will fall? Could you not use some other means?
Could not you, or one of yours----"
"Never, sir!" he said, hastily interrupting me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Think he cared for her much?"
"Don't think so. Just principle. That's all. He thought it
wasn't right--and, of course, it wasn't,--but that was no reason
for us to interfere and get hustled over the divide before our
time."
"Principle is principle, and it's good in its place, but it's best
left to home when you go to Alaska. Eh?" Wertz had joined his
mate, and both were working pliability into their frozen
moccasins. "Think we ought to have taken a hand?"
Sigmund shook his head. He was very busy. A scud of chocolate-
colored foam was rising in the coffee-pot, and the bacon needed
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