| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: your curses load his soul.'
"'Tell him,' said Lady Bothwell sternly, 'to ask pardon of that
Being whom he has so greatly offended, not of an erring mortal
like himself. What could my forgiveness avail him?'
"'Much,' answered the old man. 'It will be an earnest of that
which he may then venture to ask from his Creator, lady, and from
yours. Remember, Lady Bothwell, you too have a death-bed to look
forward to; Your soul may--all human souls must--feel the awe of
facing the judgment-seat, with the wounds of an untented
conscience, raw, and rankling--what thought would it be then that
should whisper, "I have given no mercy, how then shall I ask
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: spine (and dorsal region) ought not to be touched with any instrument
whatever; the hand alone should be used to rub and smooth it, and in
the direction of its natural growth, so as to preserve from injury
that part of the horse's back on which the rider sits.
The head should be drenched with water simply; for, being bony, if you
try to cleanse it with iron or wooden instruments injury may be
caused. So, too, the forelock should be merely wetted; the long hairs
of which it is composed, without hindering the animal's vision, serve
to scare away from the eyes anything that might trouble them.
Providence, we must suppose,[6] bestowed these hairs upon the horse,
instead of the large ears which are given to the ass and the mule as a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: extent and effects of such a nuclear chain reaction, nor of the
hazards of the resulting blast and radiation. Protective measures
could be based only on estimates and calculations. Furthermore,
scientists were reasonably confident that the gun-type uranium-fueled
device could be successfully detonated, but they did not know if the
more complex firing technology required in an implosion device would
work. Successful detonation of the TRINITY device showed that
implosion would work, that a nuclear chain reaction would result in a
powerful detonation, and that effective means exist to guard against
the blast and radiation produced.
1.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PROJECT TRINITY
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