| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: The apparatus was virtually a Leyden jar, the two coatings of which
were the two spheres, with a thick and variable insulator between
them. The amount of charge in each jar was determined by bringing a
proof-plane into contact with its knob and measuring by a torsion
balance the charge taken away. He first charged one of his
instruments, and then dividing the charge with the other, found that
when air intervened in both cases the charge was equally divided.
But when shellac, sulphur, or spermaceti was interposed between the
two spheres of one jar, while air occupied this interval in the
other, then he found that the instrument occupied by the 'solid
dielectric' takes more than half the original charge. A portion of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: feeling, and the fact that the old toper had himself well in hand, put
him still further at a disadvantage in a dispute about money matters
with his own father, especially as he credited that father with the
best intentions, and took his covetous greed for a printer's
attachment to his old familiar tools. Still, as Jerome-Nicolas Sechard
had taken the whole place over from Rouzeau's widow for ten thousand
francs, paid in assignats, it stood to reason that thirty thousand
francs in coin at the present day was an exorbitant demand.
"Father, you are cutting my throat!" exclaimed David.
"_I_," cried the old toper, raising his hand to the lines of cord
across the ceiling, "I who gave you life? Why, David, what do you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: valley to the mountain.
She answered, "Take me with you, my husband, that I may leave this
evil land, where the very skies rain blood, and let me rest awhile in
the place of my own people till the terror of Chaka has gone by."
"How can I do this?" I said. "None may leave the king's kraal without
the king's pass."
"A man may put away his wife," she replied. "The king does not stand
between a man and his wife. Say, my husband, that you love me no
longer, that I bear you no more children, and that therefore you send
me back whence I came. By-and-bye we will come together again if we
are left among the living."
Nada the Lily |
