| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: England's manhood dies not with him."
"Ay," replied Blount, "a good portion will survive with thee,
doubtless."
"And a good portion with thyself, Blount, and with stout Markham
here, and Tracy, and all of us. But I am he will best employ the
talent Heaven has given to us all."
"As how, I prithee?" said Blount; "tell us your mystery of
multiplying."
"Why, sirs," answered the youth, "ye are like goodly land, which
bears no crop because it is not quickened by manure; but I have
that rising spirit in me which will make my poor faculties labour
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: f. The parallelism of the Physical Sciences, which leads us to analyze the
mind on the analogy of the body, and so to reduce mental operations to the
level of bodily ones, or to confound one with the other.
g. That the progress of Physiology may throw a new light on Psychology is
a dream in which scientific men are always tempted to indulge. But however
certain we may be of the connexion between mind and body, the explanation
of the one by the other is a hidden place of nature which has hitherto been
investigated with little or no success.
h. The impossibility of distinguishing between mind and body. Neither in
thought nor in experience can we separate them. They seem to act together;
yet we feel that we are sometimes under the dominion of the one, sometimes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: some manuscript and some printed, but all of which they considered
as old rubbish of no value.
At first they were thrown into the gardener's rooms; but, after some months,
they decided in their wisdom to give the whole refuse to the gardener
as a recognition of his long services.
This man, wiser in his generation than these simple fathers,
took the lot to M. Vanderberg, an amateur and man of education.
M. Vanderberg took a cursory view, and then offered to buy them
by weight at sixpence per pound. The bargain was at once concluded,
and M. Vanderberg had the books.
Shortly after, Mr. Stark, a well-known London bookseller,
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