| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: "balance of the Constitution," we introduce no unknown quantity.
Statesmen ought to know them, if they know themselves; to judge what
the working man would do by what they do themselves. He who imputes
virtues to his own class imputes them also to the labouring class.
He who imputes vices to the labouring class, imputes them to his own
class. For both are not only of the same flesh and blood, but, what
is infinitely more important, of the same spirit; of the same race;
in innumerable cases, of the same ancestors. For centuries past the
most able of these men have been working upwards into the middle
class, and through it, often, to the highest dignities, and the
highest family connections; and the whole nation knows how they have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: right."
"But I reckon we ought to tell Uncle Harvey she's
gone out a while, anyway, so he won't be uneasy
about her?"
"Yes, Miss Mary Jane she wanted you to do that.
She says, 'Tell them to give Uncle Harvey and
William my love and a kiss, and say I've run over the
river to see Mr.' -- Mr. -- what IS the name of that
rich family your uncle Peter used to think so much
of? -- I mean the one that --"
"Why, you must mean the Apthorps, ain't it?"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not
rule one over another with rigour.
LEV 25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the
stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
LEV 25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
brethren may redeem him:
LEV 25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any
that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be
able, he may redeem himself.
LEV 25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year
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