| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: necessity of quantitative determinations, and seeks to supply
himself with a measure of voltaic electricity. This he finds in the
quantity of water decomposed by the current. He tests this measure
in all possible ways, to assure himself that no error can arise from
its employment. He places in the course of one and the same current
a series of cells with electrodes of different sizes, some of them
plates of platinum, others merely platinum wires, and collects the
gas liberated on each distinct pair of electrodes. He finds the
quantity of gas to be the same for all. Thus he concludes that when
the same quantity of electricity is caused to pass through a series
of cells containing acidulated water, the electro-chemical action is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: The musk-ox of the Arctic regions, when encountered, likewise stamps
on the ground.[9] How this stamping action arose I cannot conjecture;
for from inquiries which I have made it does not appear that any of
these animals fight with their fore-legs.
Some species of deer, when savage, display far more expression
than do cattle, sheep, or goats, for, as has already been stated,
they draw back their ears, grind their teeth, erect their hair,
squeal, stamp on the ground, and brandish their horns.
One day in the Zoological Gardens, the Formosan deer
(_Cervus pseudaxis_) approached me in a curious attitude,
with his muzzle raised high up, so that the horns were pressed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: indeed, with himself; and I was not surprised when he presently
said abruptly and almost rudely, 'There is one thing that I think
we must settle here.'
'Yes?' I said. 'What is that?'
'Our positions,' he blurted out, 'Or we shall cross one another
again within the hour.'
'Umph! I am not quite sure that I understand,' I said.
'That is precisely what I don't do--understand!' he retorted, in
a tone of surly triumph. 'Before I came on this duty, I was told
that there was a gentleman here, bearing sealed orders from the
Cardinal to arrest M. de Cocheforet; and I was instructed to
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