| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.
She thought that in all her life she had never seen soldiers so
uncertain on their feet: they were always tripping over
something or other, and whenever one went down, several more
always fell over him, so that the ground was soon covered with
little heaps of men.
Then came the horses. Having four feet, these managed rather
better than the foot-soldiers: but even THEY stumbled now and
then; and it seemed to be a regular rule that, whenever a horse
stumbled the rider fell off instantly. The confusion got worse
every moment, and Alice was very glad to get out of the wood into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: another at the Carlisle races! Wha kens but things may come
round in this world?"
Earnscliff muttered something like an answer; but whether in
assent of the proposition, or rebuking the application of it,
could not easily be discovered; and it seems probable that the
speaker himself was willing his meaning should rest in doubt and
obscurity. They had now descended the broad loaning, which,
winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them
in front of the thatched, but comfortable, farm-house, which was
the dwelling of Hobbie Elliot and his family.
The doorway was thronged with joyful faces; but the appearance of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: steadily increasing influence on the thought, as well as on the
commercial prosperity, of Alexandria.
You must not suppose, in the meanwhile, that the philosophers whom the
Ptolemies collected (as they would have any other marketable article) by
liberal offers of pay and patronage, were such men as the old Seven
Sages of Greece, or as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. In these three
last indeed, Greek thought reached not merely its greatest height, but
the edge of a precipice, down which it rolled headlong after their
decease. The intellectual defects of the Greek mind, of which I have
already spoken, were doubtless one great cause of this decay: but, to
my mind, moral causes had still more to do with it. The more cultivated
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