| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: Dulwich-on-the-Sound
was a palace of the Italian Renaissance. But in town
he adhered to an architecture which had moral associations,
the Nineteenth-Century-Brownstone epoch. It was a symbol of
his social position, his religious doctrine, and even, in a way,
of his business creed.
"A man of fixed principles," he would say, "should express them
in
the looks of his house. New York changes its domestic
architecture
too rapidly. It is like divorce. It is not dignified. I don't
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: you as a true philosopher and friend.[1]
'Yours, very truly,
'M. Faraday.'
Footnote to Chapter 4
[1] Faraday would have been rejoiced to learn that, during its last
meeting at Dundee, the British Association illustrated in a striking
manner the function which he here describes as its principal one.
In my own case, a brotherly welcome was everywhere manifested.
In fact, the differences of really honourable and sane men are never
beyond healing.
Chapter 5.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: the great disillusionment.
The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, re-
volves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles,
and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half
of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular
hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long
before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface
must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely
one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated
its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It
has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of
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