| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Enfield's SPEAKER, and devoted his time to the education of his
family, in a deliberate and scholarly fashion, and with certain
traits of stoicism, that would surprise a modern. From these
children we must single out his youngest daughter, Eliza, who
learned under his care to be a sound Latin, an elegant Grecian, and
to suppress emotion without outward sign after the manner of the
Godwin school. This was the more notable, as the girl really
derived from the Enfields; whose high-flown romantic temper, I wish
I could find space to illustrate. She was but seven years old,
when Alfred Austin remarked and fell in love with her; and the
union thus early prepared was singularly full. Where the husband
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you
remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the
next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the
fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your
whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which
survived. And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the
survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word. For there was
a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which now is
Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities,
is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest
constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to,
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