| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: several entomologists and botanists.
Finally, with respect to the comparative value of the various groups of
species, such as orders, sub-orders, families, sub-families, and genera,
they seem to be, at least at present, almost arbitrary. Several of the
best botanists, such as Mr. Bentham and others, have strongly insisted on
their arbitrary value. Instances could be given amongst plants and
insects, of a group of forms, first ranked by practised naturalists as only
a genus, and then raised to the rank of a sub-family or family; and this
has been done, not because further research has detected important
structural differences, at first overlooked, but because numerous allied
species, with slightly different grades of difference, have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: errand. Then I asked him if the messenger had said anything
else. He answered, Yes, one thing that he had forgotten, namely
that the writing about blankets should now be in Natal. Then
suddenly he changed the subject and asked me if I would like to
accompany him to the Valley of Bones where he was ordered to
inspect the huts which were being built for Zikali and his
people. Of course I said I should, hoping, quite without result,
that I might get something more out of him on the road.
Now this town of Cetewayo's stands, or rather stood, for it has
long been burnt, on the slope of the hills to the north-east of
the plains of Ulundi. Above it these hills grow steeper, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: to see it at the critical time of her life and in the right mood. The
superficialities of the world shrunk to their proper insignificance. Once
she asked her aunt: "Why did not Glenn bring me here?" As if this Canyon
proved the nature of all things!
But in the end Carley found that the rending strife of the transformation
of her attitude toward life had insensibly ceased. It had ceased during the
long watching of this cataclysm of nature, this canyon of gold-banded
black-fringed ramparts, and red-walled mountains which sloped down to be
lost in purple depths. That was final proof of the strength of nature to
soothe, to clarify, to stabilize the tried and weary and upward-gazing
soul. Stronger than the recorded deeds of saints, stronger than the
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