| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: fence. We pushed open the wide gate and entered. The three
ropers sat their horses, idly swinging the loops of their ropes
back and forth. Three others brought wood and arranged it
craftily in such manner as to get best draught for heatin,--a
good branding fire is most decidedly a work of art. One stood
waiting for them to finish, a sheaf of long JH stamping irons in
his hand. All the rest squatted on their heels along the fence,
smoking cigarettes ad chatting together. The first rays of the
sun slanted across in one great sweep from the remote mountains.
In ten minutes Charley pronounced the irons ready. Homer,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: thoroughfare and the Thames, till the whole seemed one vast plain
of raging fire.
The streets now presented a scene of the uttermost confusion and
distress. The affrighted citizens, whose dwellings were
momentarily threatened with destruction, hurried to and fro,
striving to save those of their families who by reason of
infancy, age or illness were unable to help themselves. Women on
the eve of child-birth were carried from their beds; mothers with
infants clinging to their naked breasts fled from homes which
would shelter them no more; the decrepit were borne away on the
shoulders of the strong. The narrow thoroughfares were moreover
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: accept the certain physical law that, in order to renovate the
brain day by day, the growing creature must have plenty of fresh
air and play, and that the child who learns for four hours and
plays for four hours, will learn more, and learn it more easily,
than the child who learns for the whole eight hours; if, in short,
they will teach girls not merely to understand the Greek tongue,
but to copy somewhat of the Greek physical training, of that
"music and gymnastic" which helped to make the cleverest race of
the old world the ablest race likewise; then they will earn the
gratitude of the patriot and the physiologists, by doing their
best to stay the downward tendencies of the physique, and
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