| 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: into a home as they are spawned into the world like fish, with the
results which we see.
The decline of natural affection follows inevitably from the
substitution of the fish relationship for that of the human. A father
who never dandles his child on his knee cannot have a very keen sense
of the responsibilities of paternity. In the rush and pressure of our
competitive City life, thousands of men have not time to be fathers.
Sires, yes; fathers, no. It will take a good deal of schoolmaster to
make up for that change. If this be the case, even with the children
constantly employed, it can be imagined what kind of a home life is
possessed by the children of the tramp, the odd jobber, the thief, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: which his personality loomed grotesque and mean.
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us
enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge
of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness.
If Glennard did not hate his wife it was slowly, sufferingly, that
there was born in him that profounder passion which made his
earlier feeling seem a mere commotion of the blood. He was like a
child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her
nearness was a breast on which he leaned.
They did not, at first, talk much together, and each beat a
devious track about the outskirts of the subject that lay between
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: machine-gun armament of aerial craft of the heavier-than-air type
has not undergone extensive development. In many instances the
pilot and observer have expressed their preference for repeating
high velocity rifles over any form of fixed gun mounting, and
have recourse to the latter only when the conditions are
extremely favourable to its effective employment.
Efforts are now being made to equip the military type of
aeroplane with both forward and astern firing guns. The urgency
of astern fire has been brought home very vividly. Suppose, for
instance, two hostile aeroplanes, A and B, are in the air. A has
the advantage at first, but B is speedier and rapidly overhauls
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