| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Isn't he clever with his sums? Here, give me another ball.
Where's Henry?"
I handed him the last-named- a favourite cleek. The caddie had
gone to collect the flotsam.
"Now then. Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind permission I
shall now proceed to beat the sphere into the sky."
It was a tremendous shot, and we could see that it must have
reached the green; but when we came up and found the ball in the
hole nobody was more surprised than Berry. Of course, he didn't
show it. Berry doesn't give things away.
"Ah!" he said pleasantly. "That's better. I'm beginning to get
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: gravitation. He does not observe that water has an equal tendency towards
both water and earth. So easily did the most obvious facts which were
inconsistent with his theories escape him.
The general physical doctrines of the Timaeus may be summed up as follows:
(1) Plato supposes the greater masses of the elements to have been already
settled in their places at the creation: (2) they are four in number, and
are formed of rectangular triangles variously combined into regular solid
figures: (3) three of them, fire, air, and water, admit of transformation
into one another; the fourth, earth, cannot be similarly transformed: (4)
different sizes of the same triangles form the lesser species of each
element: (5) there is an attraction of like to like--smaller masses of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: bands of Nature are ever weaving the beautiful garment of life
out of the strands of death, and nothing is lost that yields
itself to her quiet handling.
Another of the vines of the forest is called Partridge-berry.
Rubies are hidden among its foliage, and if you eat of this
fruit, you will grow wise in the wisdom of birds. You will know
where the oven-bird secretes her nest, and where the wood-cock
dances in the air at night; the drumming-log of the ruffed grouse
will be easy to find, and you will see the dark lodges of the
evergreen thickets inhabited by hundreds of warblers. There will
be no dead silence for you in the forest, any longer, but you
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