| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: bring with them.
There would be shops for tradesmen, houses for residets, a museum with
a panorama and stuffed whale; boats would be let out at moderate
prices, and a steamer to carry people so many miles out to sea,
and so many miles back for a penny, with a possible bout of sickness,
for which no extra charge would be made.
In fact the railway fares and refreshment arrangements would be on such
a scale, that a husband and wife could have a 70-mile ride through the
green fields, the new-mown hay, the waving grain or fruit laden
orchards; could wander for hours on the seashore, have comforting and
nourishing refreshment, and be landed back at home sober, cheered and
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: regarding Wollaston's and Faraday's respective relations to the
discovery of Magnetic Rotation. Wollaston's idea was to make the
wire carrying a current rotate round its own axis: an idea
afterwards realised by the celebrated Ampere. Faraday's discovery
was to make the wire carrying the current revolve round the pole of
a magnet and the reverse.
John Tyndall.
Royal Institution:
December, 1869.
FARADAY AS A DISCOVERER.
Chapter 1.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: O wind, that sings so loud a song!
O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
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Keepsake Mill
Over the borders, a sin without pardon,
Breaking the branches and crawling below,
A Child's Garden of Verses |
