| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: And we gave Moses the Book, that haply they might be guided.
And we made the son of Mary and his mother a sign; and we lodged
them both on a high place, furnished with security and a spring.
O ye apostles! eat of the good things and do right; verily, what
ye do I know!
And, verily, this nation of yours is one nation, and I am your Lord;
so fear me.
And they have become divided as to their affair amongst themselves
into sects, each party rejoicing in what they have themselves. So
leave them in their flood (of error) for a time.
Do they reckon that that which we grant them such an extent, of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: said the chief. "Some foolish people did it, but I have stopped
them. We ought not to cut off their heads when they do not cut off
ours." He was asked what had been done with the heads. "Two have
gone to Mataafa," he replied, "and one is buried right under where
your horse is standing, in a basket wrapped in tapa." This was
afterwards dug up, and I am told on native authority that, besides
the three heads, two ears were taken. Moors next asked the Manono
man how he came to be going away. "The man-of-war is throwing
shells," said he. "When they stopped firing out of the house, we
stopped firing also; so it was as well to scatter when the shells
began. We could have killed all the white men. I wish they had
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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: as yet, in the case of gravity, explain his efforts to transform
this latter force. When he goes into the open air and permits his
helices to fall, to his mind's eye they are tearing through the
lines of gravitating power, and hence his hope and conviction that
an effect would and ought to be produced. It must ever be borne in
mind that Faraday's difficulty in dealing with these conceptions was
at bottom the same as that of Newton; that he is in fact trying to
overleap this difficulty, and with it probably the limits prescribed
to the intellect itself.
The idea of lines of magnetic force was suggested to Faraday by the
linear arrangement of iron filings when scattered over a magnet.
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