| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Supervisors of Highways; and in the Acts of a general nature of
the State of Ohio, the Act of February 25, 1834, relating to
townships, p. 412; besides the peculiar dispositions relating to
divers town-officers, such as Township's Clerk, Trustees,
Overseers of the Poor, Fence Viewers, Appraisers of Property,
Township's Treasurer, Constables, Supervisors of Highways.]
We have seen that in Massachusetts the mainspring of public
administration lies in the township. It forms the common centre
of the interests and affections of the citizens. But this ceases
to be the case as we descend to States in which knowledge is less
generally diffused, and where the township consequently offers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: VI. THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN - The echoing bridge you here may
see
MORAL TALES
I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY - Come, lend
me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER'S DOOM - In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin
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NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS
Poem: NOT I
Some like drink
In a pint pot,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: than a beggar!"
"Little better than a beggar," said the Town Councillors.
"And here is actually a dead bird at his feet!" continued the
Mayor. "We must really issue a proclamation that birds are not to
be allowed to die here." And the Town Clerk made a note of the
suggestion.
So they pulled down the statue of the Happy Prince. "As he is no
longer beautiful he is no longer useful," said the Art Professor at
the University.
Then they melted the statue in a furnace, and the Mayor held a
meeting of the Corporation to decide what was to be done with the
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