| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: was another figure sitting in the stern. Faster and faster it glided over
the water away, away. She ran along the shore; she came no nearer it. The
garment she had held closed fluttered open; she stretched out her arms, and
the moonlight shone on her long loose hair.
Then a voice beside her whispered, "What is it?"
She cried, "With my blood I bought the best of all gifts for him. I have
come to bring it him! He is going from me!"
The voice whispered softly, "Your prayer was answered. It has been given
him."
She cried, "What is it?"
The voice answered, "It is that he might leave you."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: imperiorum, founders of states and common-
wealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Caesar,
Ottoman, Ismael. In the second place are legis-
latores, lawgivers; which are also called second
founders, or perpetui principes, because they gov-
ern by their ordinances after they are gone; such
were Lycurgus, Solon, Justinian, Eadgar, Alphon-
sus of Castile, the Wise, that made the Siete Parti-
das. In the third place are liberatores, or salvatores,
such as compound the long miseries of civil
wars, or deliver their countries from servitude of
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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: conclusive manner that no trace of electricity can pass through a
liquid compound without producing its equivalent decomposition.[2]
Faraday has now got fairly entangled amid the chemical phenomena of
the pile, and here his previous training under Davy must have been
of the most important service to him. Why, he asks, should
decomposition thus take place?--what force is it that wrenches the
locked constituents of these compounds asunder? On the 20th of June,
1833, he read a paper before the Royal Society 'On Electro-chemical
Decomposition,' in which he seeks to answer these questions.
The notion had been entertained that the poles, as they are called,
of the decomposing cell, or in other words the surfaces by which the
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