| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: when it might be practicable to grapple for the moorings, and
find a better anchorage for the ship.
[Tuesday, 15th Sept.]
This morning, at five a.m., the bell rung as a signal for
landing upon the rock, a sound which, after a lapse of ten
days, it is believed was welcomed by every one on board.
There being a heavy breach of sea at the eastern creek, we
landed, though not without difficulty, on the western side,
every one seeming more eager than another to get upon the
rock; and never did hungry men sit down to a hearty meal with
more appetite than the artificers began to pick the dulse from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: in whatever direction should be indicated.
Still in the distance, but evidently impatient, the sergeant bawled
a question.
"Who gave you leave to encamp here?"
It was a question that reassured Andre-Louis not at all. He was
not deceived by it into supposing or even hoping that the business
of these men was merely to round up vagrants and trespassers. That
was no part of their real duty; it was something done in passing
- done, perhaps, in the hope of levying a tax of their own. It
was very long odds that they were from Rennes, and that their real
business was the hunting down of a young lawyer charged with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: philosophy, poetry, art, religion, and above all to German family
life, and which is just the complement needed to prevent our English
common-sense, matter-of-fact Lockism from degenerating into
materialism--that was only lying hidden, but not dead, in the German
spirit.
With the Germans, therefore, Freemasonry assumed a nobler and more
earnest shape. Dropping, very soon, that Lockite and Philosophe
tone which had perhaps recommended it to Frederick the Great in his
youth, it became mediaevalist and mystic. It craved after a
resuscitation of old chivalrous spirit, and the virtues of the
knightly ideal, and the old German biederkeit und tapferkeit, which
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