| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: of Panama almost to the Arctic Ocean; and presenting a
corresponding chain to that of the Andes in the southern
hemisphere. This vast range has acquired, from its rugged and
broken character and its summits of naked granite, the
appellation of the Rocky Mountains, a name by no means
distinctive, as all elevated ranges are rocky. Among the early
explorers it was known as the range of Chippewyan Mountains, and
this Indian name is the one it is likely to retain in poetic
usage. Rising from the midst of vast plains and prairies,
traversing several degrees of latitude, dividing the waters of
the Atlantic and the Pacific, and seeming to bind with diverging
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: Maskull felt a rising storm inside him. He was perfectly aware that
although these words were uttered by Sature, they were being dictated
by the boy.
"What he says is quite true," remarked the latter. "Tomorrow roots
will reach the ground, and in a few days they ought to be well
established. Then I shall set to work to convert his arms into
branches, and his fingers into leaves. It will take longer to
transform his head into a crown, but still I hope - in fact I can
almost promise that within a month you and I, Oceaxe, will be
plucking and enjoying fruit from this new and remarkable tree."
"I love these natural experiments," he concluded, putting out his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: warnings; but the railroad officials, and others who were
responsible for his journey, had detectives on watch at different
points to report any suspicious happenings. Nothing occurred to
change the program already agreed upon until the party reached
Philadelphia; but there Mr. Lincoln was met by Frederick W.
Seward, the son of his future Secretary of State, with an
important message from his father. A plot had been discovered to
do violence to, and perhaps kill, the President-elect as he
passed through the city of Baltimore. Mr. Seward and General
Scott, the venerable hero of the Mexican War, who was now at the
head of the army, begged him to run no risk, but to alter his
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