| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: being hardly able to keep alive without me, whatever my
offences, that would make me feel I ought to say I
will."
"You will--you do say it, I know! You will be mine for
ever and ever."
He clasped her close and kissed her.
"Yes!"
She had no sooner said it than she burst into a dry
hard sobbing, so violent that it seemed to rend her.
Tess was not a hysterical girl by any means, and he was
surprised.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: requisite, as we have seen with pigeons. The origin of the existence of
groups subordinate to groups, is the same with varieties as with species,
namely, closeness of descent with various degrees of modification. Nearly
the same rules are followed in classifying varieties, as with species.
Authors have insisted on the necessity of classing varieties on a natural
instead of an artificial system; we are cautioned, for instance, not to
class two varieties of the pine-apple together, merely because their fruit,
though the most important part, happens to be nearly identical; no one puts
the swedish and common turnips together, though the esculent and thickened
stems are so similar. Whatever part is found to be most constant, is used
in classing varieties: thus the great agriculturist Marshall says the
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: have just and natural pretensions, but a great and dangerous
influence has been established over the Indian tribes, difficult
to be counteracted, and capable of being exerted at critical
periods, to the great injury and annoyance of our frontier
settlements.
That in order to obtain at least a part of the above trade, and
more particularly that which is within the boundaries of the
United States, your petitioners, in the year 1808, obtained an
act of incorporation from the State of New York, whereby they are
enabled, with a competent capital, to carry on the said trade
with the Indians in such a manner as may be conformable to the
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