| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: superior genius to strive to proceed farther, by contributing, each
according to his inclination and ability, to the experiments which it
would be necessary to make, and also by informing the public of all they
might discover, so that, by the last beginning where those before them had
left off, and thus connecting the lives and labours of many, we might
collectively proceed much farther than each by himself could do.
I remarked, moreover, with respect to experiments, that they become always
more necessary the more one is advanced in knowledge; for, at the
commencement, it is better to make use only of what is spontaneously
presented to our senses, and of which we cannot remain ignorant, provided
we bestow on it any reflection, however slight, than to concern ourselves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: Crave thee to lead them where great mornings break . . . .
Mother, O Mother, wherefore dost thou sleep?
Arise and answer for thy children's sake!
Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
I muse among these silent fanes
Whose spacious darkness guards your dust;
Around me sleep the hoary plains
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tion of the army of Lutha were issued within fifteen minutes
of his return to Lustadt. It would do no harm, thought the
old man, with a grim smile, to get things well under way a
day ahead of time. This accomplished, he summoned the
Serbian minister, with what purpose and to what effect be-
came historically evident several days later. When, after
twenty-four hours' absence, his aide had not returned from
Blentz, the chancellor had no regrets for his forehanded-
ness.
In the castle of Peter of Blentz the king of Lutha was be-
ing entertained royally. He was told nothing of the attempt
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