| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: extremity of the lists, and again there was a little space of
breathless pause. Myles was surprised at his own coolness; every
nervous tremor was gone. Before, he had been conscious of the
critical multitude looking down upon him; now it was a conflict
of man to man, and such a conflict had no terrors for his young
heart of iron.
The spectators had somehow come to the knowledge that this was to
be a more serious encounter than the two which had preceded it,
and a breathless silence fell for the moment or two that the
knights stood in place.
Once more he breathed a short prayer, "Holy Mary, guard me!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members
chosen every second Year by the People of the several States,
and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a citizen of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which
he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: side of the question. As for the Yankees, they had no other
ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky,
and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star-
spangled banner of the United States of America.
CHAPTER VII
THE HYMN OF THE CANNON-BALL
The Observatory of Cambridge in its memorable letter had treated the
question from a purely astronomical point of view. The mechanical
part still remained.
President Barbicane had, without loss of time, nominated a
working committee of the Gun Club. The duty of this committee
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