| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: "You'd drug me on to the new," said the bishop.
"But just one word more!" said Dr. Dale. "Hear why I would do
this! It was easy and successful to rest and drug people back to
their old states of mind when the world wasn't changing, wasn't
spinning round in the wildest tornado of change that it has ever
been in. But now--Where can I send you for a rest? Where can I
send you to get you out of sight and hearing of the Catastrophe?
Of course old Brighton-Pomfrey would go on sending people away
for rest and a nice little soothing change if the Day of Judgment
was coming in the sky and the earth was opening and the sea was
giving up its dead. He'd send 'em to the seaside. Such things as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: privately to town, and assuming a disguise, took up his residence
in the city. Here exercising his characteristic tact, and great
capacity for pleasing, he speedily made friends with wealthy
merchants and worthy aldermen, who subsequently invited him to
their hospitable tables, and introduced him to their gracious
ladies.
And as his conversation had not failed to delight the husbands,
neither were his charms unsuccessful in affording satisfaction to
their wives. To the one he railed against the impotence of the
king's ministers, to the other he declaimed upon the wickedness
of his majesty's mistresses; and to both his denunciations were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: year. There only remain an hundred and twenty thousand children
of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How
this number shall be reared, and provided for? which, as I have
already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly
impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can
neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither
build houses, (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they
can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing till they arrive
at six years old; except where they are of towardly parts,
although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier; during
which time they can however be properly looked upon only as
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