| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: man and woman, her manifest design was to give a distinct
employment to their various faculties; and they hold that
improvement does not consist in making beings so dissimilar do
pretty nearly the same things, but in getting each of them to
fulfil their respective tasks in the best possible manner. The
Americans have applied to the sexes the great principle of
political economy which governs the manufactures of our age, by
carefully dividing the duties of man from those of woman, in
order that the great work of society may be the better carried
on.
In no country has such constant care been taken as in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 16: 19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: 'Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.'
1_Samuel 16: 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1_Samuel 16: 21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.
1_Samuel 16: 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.'
1_Samuel 16: 23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul found relief, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.
1_Samuel 17: 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
1_Samuel 17: 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
1_Samuel 17: 3 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side; and there was a valley between them.
1_Samuel 17: 4 And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: area is now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period.
Geology would lead us to believe that almost every continent has been
broken up into islands even during the later tertiary periods; and in such
islands distinct species might have been separately formed without the
possibility of intermediate varieties existing in the intermediate zones.
By changes in the form of the land and of climate, marine areas now
continuous must often have existed within recent times in a far less
continuous and uniform condition than at present. But I will pass over
this way of escaping from the difficulty; for I believe that many perfectly
defined species have been formed on strictly continuous areas; though I do
not doubt that the formerly broken condition of areas now continuous has
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