| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I made the green men see all this, and then I made them
see the arrows fly, and I made them think that the points
pierced their hearts.
"It was all that was necessary. By hundreds they toppled
from our walls, and when my fellows saw what I had done
they were quick to follow my example, so that presently the
hordes of Torquas had retreated beyond the range of our arrows.
"We might have killed them at any distance, but one rule of
war we have maintained from the first--the rule of realism.
We do nothing, or rather we cause our bowmen to do nothing
within sight of the enemy that is beyond the understanding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: knowledge of God.'
'Is this knowledge of God a precious thing?' asked the young man,
and he came close to the mouth of the cavern.
'It is more precious than all the purple and the pearls of the
world,' answered the Hermit.
'And have you got it?' said the young Robber, and he came closer
still.
'Once, indeed,' answered the Hermit, 'I possessed the perfect
knowledge of God. But in my foolishness I parted with it, and
divided it amongst others. Yet even now is such knowledge as
remains to me more precious than purple or pearls.'
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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: angles to the lines of force, there is no rotation at all. He also
proved that the amount of the rotation is proportional to the length
of the diamagnetic through which the ray passes. He operated with
liquids and solutions. Of aqueous solutions he tried 150 and more,
and found the power in all of them. He then examined gases; but
here all his efforts to produce any sensible action upon the
polarized beam were ineffectual. He then passed from magnets to
currents, enclosing bars of heavy glass, and tubes containing
liquids and aqueous solutions within an electro-magnetic helix.
A current sent through the helix caused the plane of polarization to
rotate, and always in the direction of the current. The rotation
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