| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: but the spirit of order, the spirit that has already produced
organized science, if only there are a few faithful,
persistent people to stick to the job, will in the long run
certainly save mankind and make human life clean and
splendid, happy work in a clear mind. If I could live to see
it!"
"And as for us--in our time?"
"Measured by the end we serve, we don't matter. You know we
don't matter."
"We have to find our fun in the building and in our
confidence that we do really build."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: foxglove bells. Deary me, but it's lang syne! Folk have dee'd sinsyne
and been buried, and are forgotten, and bairns been born and got merrit
and got bairns o' their ain. Sinsyne woods have been plantit, and have
grawn up and are bonny trees, and the joes sit in their shadow, and
sinsyne auld estates have changed hands, and there have been wars and
rumours of wars on the face of the earth. And here I'm still - like an
auld droopit craw - lookin' on and craikin'! But, Mr. Erchie, do ye no
think that I have mind o' it a' still? I was dwalling then in my
faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in
the Deil's Hags. And do ye no think that I have mind of the bonny
simmer days, the lang miles o' the bluid-red heather, the cryin' of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall:
Chapter 8.
Researches on frictional electricity: induction: conduction:
specific inductive capacity: theory of contiguous particles.
The burst of power which had filled the four preceding years with an
amount of experimental work unparalleled in the history of science
partially subsided in 1835, and the only scientific paper contributed
by Faraday in that year was a comparatively unimportant one, 'On an
improved Form of the Voltaic Battery.' He brooded for a time: his
experiments on electrolysis had long filled his mind; he looked, as
already stated, into the very heart of the electrolyte, endeavouring
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