| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: out types, or forms, representing most of the characters of each group,
whether large or small, and thus give a general idea of the value of the
differences between them. This is what we should be driven to, if we were
ever to succeed in collecting all the forms in any class which have lived
throughout all time and space. We shall certainly never succeed in making
so perfect a collection: nevertheless, in certain classes, we are tending
in this direction; and Milne Edwards has lately insisted, in an able paper,
on the high importance of looking to types, whether or not we can separate
and define the groups to which such types belong.
Finally, we have seen that natural selection, which results from the
struggle for existence, and which almost inevitably induces extinction and
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: no choice; I must be on the side of the devil. But--isn't she
like me? She too wants to `reform the town'! She too
criticizes everybody! She too thinks the men are vulgar and
limited! AM I LIKE HER? This is ghastly!"
That evening she did not merely consent to play cribbage
with Kennicott; she urged him to play; and she worked up
a hectic interest in land-deals and Sam Clark.
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In courtship days Kennicott had shown her a photograph of
Nels Erdstrom's baby and log cabin, but she had never seen
the Erdstroms. They had become merely "patients of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: conversation, though it may have been culpable in him
in making no effort to divulge his presence, and
possibly equally unpraiseworthy, as well as lacking in
romance, to attribute the doctor's avowal to his
knowledge of the heavy chest.
As Professor Maxon eyed the man before replying to his
abrupt request, von Horn noted a strange and sudden
light in the older man's eyes--a something which he
never before had seen there and which caused an
uncomfortable sensation to creep over him--a manner of
bristling that was akin either to fear or horror, von
The Monster Men |
