| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: statues be carved, and grander temples built, than the world has
ever yet seen.
And if that is not the reason why the chalk is being sent into the
sea, then there is another reason, and probably a far better one.
For, as I told you at first, Lady Why's intentions are far wiser
and better than our fancies; and she--like Him whom she obeys--is
able to do exceeding abundantly, beyond all that we can ask or
think.
But you will say now that we have followed the chalk-cart a long
way, without coming to the cave.
You are wrong. We have come to the very mouth of the cave. All
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: of smoke! I had forgotten my number, I think; anyhow, I remember
going into several bedrooms--it was lucky I was the only soul
in that wing--until I saw my traps. 'Here we are,' I said, and sat
down in the arm-chair; 'sit down and tell me all about it. It seems
to me you have got yourself into a jolly awkward position, old chap.'
"Well, he said he wouldn't sit down! he'd prefer to flit up and down
the room if it was all the same to me. And so he did, and in a little
while we were deep in a long and serious talk. And presently,
you know, something of those whiskies and sodas evaporated out of me,
and I began to realise just a little what a thundering rum and weird
business it was that I was in. There he was, semi-transparent--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: the fires of immense ambition, and had come to Paris on foot at the
age of twenty, the possessor of two hundred francs. He had studied the
law, working in an attorney's office, where he had risen to be
superior clerk. He had taken his doctor's degree in law, had mastered
the old and modern codes, and could hold his own with the most famous
pleaders. He had studied the law of nations, and was familiar with
European treaties and international practice. He had studied men and
things in five capitals--London, Berlin, Vienna, Petersburg, and
Constantinople.
No man was better informed than he as to the rules of the Chamber. For
five years he had been reporter of the debates for a daily paper. He
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