| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: yet by the egoism of family or success, or by that narrow selfishness
which blights the first impulses of honor, devotion, self-sacrifice,
and high demands of self; all the flowers so soon wither that enrich
at first the life of delicate but strong emotions, and keep alive the
loyalty of the heart.
But these two, once launched forth into the vast of sentiment, went
far indeed in theory, sounding the depths in either soul, testing the
sincerity of their expressions; only, whereas Gaston's experiments
were made unconsciously, Mme. de Beauseant had a purpose in all that
she said. Bringing her natural and acquired subtlety to the work, she
sought to learn M. de Nueil's opinions by advancing, as far as she
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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: laws of electro-magnetic action, produce the observed rotation.
Introducing the edge of his disk between the poles of the large
horseshoe magnet of the Royal Society, and connecting the axis and
the edge of the disk, each by a wire with a galvanometer, he
obtained, when the disk was turned round, a constant flow of
electricity. The direction of the current was determined by the
direction of the motion, the current being reversed when the
rotation was reversed. He now states the law which rules the
production of currents in both disks and wires, and in so doing
uses, for the first time, a phrase which has since become famous.
When iron filings are scattered over a magnet, the particles of iron
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: not, if they be hard-worked folk--bathe in cold water during nine
months of the year. And there they shall wash their clothes, and
dry them by steam; instead of washing them as now, at home, either
under back sheds, where they catch cold and rheumatism, or too
often, alas! in their own living rooms, in an atmosphere of foul
vapour, which drives the father to the public-house and the
children into the streets; and which not only prevents the clothes
from being thoroughly dried again, but is, my dear boy, as you
will know when you are older, a very hot-bed of disease. And they
shall have other comforts, and even luxuries, these public
lavatories; and be made, in time, graceful and refining, as well
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