| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: also understand the fact that the Alpine plants of each mountain-range are
more especially related to the arctic forms living due north or nearly due
north of them: for the migration as the cold came on, and the re-migration
on the returning warmth, will generally have been due south and north. The
Alpine plants, for example, of Scotland, as remarked by Mr. H. C. Watson,
and those of the Pyrenees, as remarked by Ramond, are more especially
allied to the plants of northern Scandinavia; those of the United States to
Labrador; those of the mountains of Siberia to the arctic regions of that
country. These views, grounded as they are on the perfectly
well-ascertained occurrence of a former Glacial period, seem to me to
explain in so satisfactory a manner the present distribution of the Alpine
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: wrong in another mould; or the word 'pleasure' has been associated in their
mind with merely animal enjoyment. They could not believe that what they
were always striving to overcome, and the power or principle in them which
overcame, were of the same nature. The pleasure of doing good to others
and of bodily self-indulgence, the pleasures of intellect and the pleasures
of sense, are so different:--Why then should they be called by a common
name? Or, if the equivocal or metaphorical use of the word is justified by
custom (like the use of other words which at first referred only to the
body, and then by a figure have been transferred to the mind), still, why
should we make an ambiguous word the corner-stone of moral philosophy? To
the higher thinker the Utilitarian or hedonist mode of speaking has been at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: women with a rolling, "Where's Brother Jones, sister, where's
Brother Jones? Not going to be with us tonight? Well,
you tell Sister Perry to hand you a plate, and make 'em give
you enough oyster pie!"
Erik shared in the cheerfulness. He laughed with Myrtle,
jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock
bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee. Myrtle
was enchanted by his humor. From the other end of the room,
a matron among matrons, Carol observed Myrtle, and hated
her, and caught herself at it. "To be jealous of a wooden-
faced village girl!" But she kept it up. She detested Erik;
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