| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What i tell you three times is true."
The crew was complete: it included a Boots--
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods--
A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes--
And a Broker, to value their goods.
A Billiard-maker, whose skill was immense,
Might perhaps have won more than his share--
But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,
Had the whole of their cash in his care.
There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: a similar argument had been employed. I quote here with equal
pleasure and admiration the following passage written by Dr. Roget
so far back as 1829. Speaking of the contact theory, he says:--
'If there could exist a power having the property ascribed to it by
the hypothesis, namely, that of giving continual impulse to a fluid
in one constant direction, without being exhausted by its own
action, it would differ essentially from all the known powers in
nature. All the powers and sources of motion with the operation of
which we are acquainted, when producing these peculiar effects, are
expended in the same proportion as those effects are produced; and
hence arises the impossibility of obtaining by their agency a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: for the winter--she and her mother and Randolph. She asked him
if he was a "real American"; she shouldn't have taken him for one;
he seemed more like a German--this was said after a little hesitation--
especially when he spoke. Winterbourne, laughing, answered that
he had met Germans who spoke like Americans, but that he had not,
so far as he remembered, met an American who spoke like a German.
Then he asked her if she should not be more comfortable in sitting
upon the bench which he had just quitted. She answered that she
liked standing up and walking about; but she presently sat down.
She told him she was from New York State--"if you know where that is."
Winterbourne learned more about her by catching hold of her small,
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