| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: thorns in the sides of some five hapless men of Macedonia, as
"emancipated women;" a class but too common in the later days of Greece,
as they will always be, perhaps, in civilisations which are decaying and
crumbling to pieces, leaving their members to seek in bewilderment what
they are, and what bonds connect them with their fellow-beings. But to
return: funds shall be provided for the Museum from the treasury; a
priest of rank, appointed by royalty, shall be curator; botanical and
zoological gardens shall be attached; collections of wonders made. In
all things the presiding genius of Aristotle shall be worshipped; for
these, like Alexander, were his pupils. Had he not mapped out all
heaven and earth, things seen and unseen, with his entelechies, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: the Summer Palace, represented to her that the boy whom she had
placed upon the throne was steering the ship of state to certain
destruction, and begged that she would come and once more take
the helm. She listened to them with the attention and deference
for which she has always been famed, and then dismissed them
without any intimation as to what her course would be.
When the Emperor heard what they were doing, he sent a courier
post-haste to call Yuan Shih-kai for an interview at the palace.
When Yuan came, he ordered him to return to Tien-tsin, dispose
of his superior officer, the Governor-General Jung Lu, and bring
the army corps of 12,500 troops of which he was in charge to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: curious, bloated appearance, and eyes--the remainder of the face
was entirely concealed by thick hair--eyes dull and vacant, of an
incredibly large size; they had the appearance of ghouls, apes,
monsters--anything but human beings.
They sat, thousands of them, crouched silently on their stone
seats, gazing, motionless as blocks of wood.
The center of the cavern was a lake, taking up something more
than half of its area. The water was black as night, and curiously
smooth and silent. Its banks sloped by degrees for a hundred feet
or so, but at its edge there was a perpendicular bank of rock
fifteen or twenty feet in height.
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