| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: to us. We shall even thus find enough to occupy (if we choose) our
lifetime. For we must recollect that this hasty sketch has hardly
touched on that vegetable water-world, which is as wonderful and as
various as the animal one. A hint or two of the beauty of the sea-
weeds has been given; but space has allowed no more. Yet we might
have spent our time with almost as much interest and profit, had we
neglected utterly the animals which we have found, and devoted our
attention exclusively to the flora of the rocks. Sea-weeds are no
mere playthings for children; and to buy at a shop some thirty
pretty kinds, pasted on paper, with long names (probably mis-spelt)
written under each, is not by any means to possess a collection of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: which nature did not give, and which nature cannot take away. And
therefore, while I live on earth, I will live to the spirit, not to
the flesh, that I may be, indeed, a man; and this same gross flesh,
this animal ape-nature in me, shall be the very element in me which
I will renounce, defy, despise; at least, if I am minded to be, not
a merely higher savage, but a truly higher civilised man.
Civilisation with me shall mean, not more wealth, more finery, more
self-indulgence--even more aesthetic and artistic luxury; but more
virtue, more knowledge, more self-control, even though I earn scanty
bread by heavy toil; and when I compare the Caesar of Rome or the
great king, whether of Egypt, Babylon, or Persia, with the hermit 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: little brass globe to the globe of the earth. He plays like a
magician with the earth's magnetism. He sees the invisible lines
along which its magnetic action is exerted, and sweeping his wand
across these lines evokes this new power. Placing a simple loop of
wire round a magnetic needle he bends its upper portion to the west:
the north pole of the needle immediately swerves to the east: he
bends his loop to the east, and the north pole moves to the west.
Suspending a common bar magnet in a vertical position, he causes it
to spin round its own axis. Its pole being connected with one end
of a galvanometer wire, and its equator with the other end,
electricity rushes round the galvanometer from the rotating magnet.
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