| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: no matter what its race and color may be, should know that there are
black men and brown men and yellow men, and, no matter what its
political convictions may be, that there are Monarchists and
Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should
know that there are Christians and Mahometans and Buddhists and
Shintoists and so forth, and that they are on the average just as
honest and well-behaved as its own father. For example, it should not
be told that Allah is a false god set up by the Turks and Arabs, who
will all be damned for taking that liberty; but it should be told that
many English people think so, and that many Turks and Arabs think the
converse about English people. It should be taught that Allah is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: go."
Bauzy nodded, and when Frances was seated held out his
hand.
"Twenty francs," he said.
She opened her bag and gave them to him.
"She must be folle!" he said uneasily. "I feel like a
thief. Away with you, Babette!" as a pretty baby ran up
to him. "You want to ride? That is impossible.
Unless, indeed, madame desires it?" lifting the child to
place her on the seat. Babette laughed and held out her
hands.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: of spirits. You have a very smiling scene before you."
"Do you mean literally or figuratively? Literally,
I conclude. Yes, certainly, the sun shines, and the park
looks very cheerful. But unluckily that iron gate,
that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship.
"I cannot get out, as the starling said." As she spoke,
and it was with expression, she walked to the gate:
he followed her. "Mr. Rushworth is so long fetching
this key!"
"And for the world you would not get out without the key
and without Mr. Rushworth's authority and protection,
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