| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: stretched 480 feet of copper wire, north and south, over the lake,
causing plates soldered to the wire at its ends to dip into the
water. The copper wire was severed at the middle, and the severed
ends connected with a galvanometer. No effect whatever was observed.
But though quiescent water gave no effect, moving water might.
He therefore worked at London Bridge for three days during the ebb
and flow of the tide, but without any satisfactory result. Still he
urges, 'Theoretically it seems a necessary consequence, that where
water is flowing there electric currents should be formed. If a line
be imagined passing from Dover to Calais through the sea, and
returning through the land, beneath the water, to Dover, it traces
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: the son, her brother and husband, for a time went distracted;
and at last the young woman went away for England, and has
never been hears of since.'
It is easy to believe that I was strangely affected with this story,
but 'tis impossible to describe the nature of my disturbance. I
seemed astonished at the story, and asked her a thousand
questions about the particulars, which I found she was
thoroughly acquainted with. At last I began to inquire into the
circumstances of the family, how the old gentlewoman, I mean
my mother, died, and how she left what she had; for my mother
had promised me very solemnly, that when she died she would
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: under the ground. We must bring it into
the sight of all men. We need all our time,
we need the work rooms of the Home of
the Scholars, we want the help of our
brother Scholars and their wisdom joined
to ours. There is so much work ahead for
all of us, for all the Scholars of the world.
In a month, the World Council of Scholars
is to meet in our City. It is a great Council,
to which the wisest of all lands are
elected, and it meets once a year in the
Anthem |
