| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: extent from their parents. Such differences might, also, become correlated
with successive stages of development; so that the larvae, in the first
stage, might differ greatly from the larvae in the second stage, as we have
seen to be the case with cirripedes. The adult might become fitted for
sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, &c., would
be useless; and in this case the final metamorphosis would be said to be
retrograde.
As all the organic beings, extinct and recent, which have ever lived on
this earth have to be classed together, and as all have been connected by
the finest gradations, the best, or indeed, if our collections were nearly
perfect, the only possible arrangement, would be genealogical. Descent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And with dews for ever wet;
So from this garish life the spirit peers;
And lo! as a sleeping city death outspread,
Where breathe the sleepers evenly; and lo!
After the loud wars, triumphs, trumpets, tears
And clamour of man's passion, Death appears,
And we must rise and go.
Soon are eyes tired with sunshine; soon the ears
Weary of utterance, seeing all is said;
Soon, racked by hopes and fears,
The all-pondering, all-contriving head,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: And thou, treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
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