| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: give one more instance. Pedunculated cirripedes have two minute folds of
skin, called by me the ovigerous frena, which serve, through the means of a
sticky secretion, to retain the eggs until they are hatched within the
sack. These cirripedes have no branchiae, the whole surface of the body
and sack, including the small frena, serving for respiration. The
Balanidae or sessile cirripedes, on the other hand, have no ovigerous
frena, the eggs lying loose at the bottom of the sack, in the well-enclosed
shell; but they have large folded branchiae. Now I think no one will
dispute that the ovigerous frena in the one family are strictly homologous
with the branchiae of the other family; indeed, they graduate into each
other. Therefore I do not doubt that little folds of skin, which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: the Calendar of the Covenant, in the person of the father of our
family historian. He "took the sheaf from the mare," however, as
the MS. expresses it, and agreed to accept of the terms of pardon
offered by Government, and sign the bond in evidence he would
give no further ground of offence. My grandsire glosses over his
father's backsliding as smoothly as he can, and comforts himself
with ascribing his want of resolution to his unwillingness to
wreck the ancient name and family, and to permit his lands and
lineage to fall under a doom of forfeiture.
"And indeed," said the venerable compiler, "as, praised be God,
we seldom meet in Scotland with these belly-gods and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: mandatis eum a se dimittit. Postquam omnes Belgarum copias in unum locum
coactas ad se venire vidit neque iam longe abesse ab iis quos miserat
exploratoribus et ab Remis cognovit, flumen Axonam, quod est in extremis
Remorum finibus, exercitum traducere maturavit atque ibi castra posuit.
Quae res et latus ullum castrorum ripis fluminis muniebat et post eum quae
erant tuta ab hostibus reddebat et commeatus ab Remis reliquisque
civitatibus ut sine periculo ad eum portari possent efficiebat. In eo
flumine pons erat. Ibi praesidium ponit et in altera parte fluminis
Q. Titurium Sabinum legatum cum sex cohortibus relinquit; castra in
altitudinem pedum XII vallo fossaque duodeviginti pedum muniri iubet.
Ab his castris oppidum Remorum nomine Bibrax aberat milia passuum
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