| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: add to the foregoing analysis a few personal reminiscences and
remarks, tending to connect Faraday with a wider world than that of
science--namely, with the general human heart.
One word in reference to his married life, in addition to what has
been already said, may find a place here. As in the former case,
Faraday shall be his own spokesman. The following paragraph, though
written in the third person, is from his hand:--'On June 12, 1821,
he married, an event which more than any other contributed to his
earthly happiness and healthful state of mind. The union has
continued for twenty-eight years and has in no wise changed, except
in the depth and strength of its character.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: of health.
He was faintly roused by the church bells, and lay still, lingering with
his sleep, his eyes closed, and his thoughts unshaped. As he became
slowly aware of the morning, the ringing and the light reached him, and
he waked wholly, and, still lying quiet, considered the strange room
filled with the bells and the sun of the winter's day. "Where have I
struck now?" he inquired; and as last night returned abruptly upon his
mind, he raised himself on his arm.
There sat Responsibility in a chair, washed clean and dressed, watching
him.
"You're awful late," said Responsibility. "But I weren't a-going without
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: range (about 700 feet above the sea) a great arched fragment,
lying on its convex side, or back downwards. Mus
we believe that it was fairly pitched up in the air, and thu
turned? Or, with more probability, that there existed formerly
a part of the same range more elevated than the poin
on which this monument of a great convulsion of nature no
lies. As the fragments in the valleys are neither rounde
nor the crevices filled up with sand, we must infer that th
period of violence was subsequent to the land having bee
raised above the waters of the sea. In a transverse sectio
within these valleys, the bottom is nearly level, or rises bu
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