| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: and the sternpost. I tell you Lloyd's is a ring like everybody
else; only it's an English ring, and that's what deceives you. If
it was American, you would be crying it down all day. It's
Anglomania, common Anglomania," he cried, with growing
irritation.
"I will not make money by risking men's lives," was my
ultimatum.
"Great Caesar! isn't all speculation a risk? Isn't the fairest kind
of shipowning to risk men's lives? And mining--how's that for
risk? And look at the elevator business--there's danger, if you
like! Didn't I take my risk when I bought her? She might have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: hope, the secret of all conjugal situations. It so happened that
whenever the poor woman reached a depth of despair which gave her
courage to question her husband, she met with a few brief moments of
happiness when she was able to feel that if Balthazar was indeed in
the clutch of some devilish power, he was permitted, sometimes at
least, to return to himself. At such moments, when her heaven
brightened, she was too eager to enjoy its happiness to trouble him
with importunate questions: later, when she endeavored to speak to
him, he would suddenly escape, leave her abruptly, or drop into the
gulf of meditation from which no word of hers could drag him.
Before long the reaction of the moral upon the physical condition
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: shaken. I believe that the return of these commercial panics is
an endemic disease of the democratic nations of our age. It may
be rendered less dangerous, but it cannot be cured; because it
does not originate in accidental circumstances, but in the
temperament of these nations.
Chapter XX: That Aristocracy May Be Engendered By Manufactures
I have shown that democracy is favorable to the growth of
manufactures, and that it increases without limit the numbers of
the manufacturing classes: we shall now see by what side road
manufacturers may possibly in their turn bring men back to
aristocracy. It is acknowledged that when a workman is engaged
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