| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: than for his dishonour. She dreaded, on his account, the
subjection to strangers, and the death-sleep of the soul which is
brought on by what she regarded as slavery.
The moral principle which so naturally and so justly occurs to
the mind of those who have been educated under a settled
government of laws that protect the property of the weak against
the incursions of the strong, was to poor Elspat a book sealed
and a fountain closed. She had been taught to consider those
whom they call Saxons as a race with whom the Gael were
constantly at war; and she regarded every settlement of theirs
within the reach of Highland incursion as affording a legitimate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: settin' dudes squintin' through telescopes and cypherin' over one
per cent reductions," the Southerner commented.
"It's common sense," assented Trampas. "Have you heard the new
scheme about the water-tanks?"
"I ain't right certain," said the Southerner.
"I must watch this," said Scipio, "or I shall bust. He went in,
and so did I.
They were all sitting over this discussion of the Northern
Pacific's recent policy as to betterments, as though they were
the board of directors. Pins could have dropped. Only nobody
would have cared to hear a pin.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the
President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves--the
union between themselves and the State--and refuse to pay
their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in same
relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And
have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting
the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?
How can a man be satisfied to entertain and opinion
merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his
opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of
a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied
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