| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: hearts; as if new honour and pride and love did flash into the
realms below heaven with the breaking of Christmas morn. It was
a beautiful faith; he almost wished it were his. A beautiful
faith! it gave a meaning to the old custom of gifts and kind
words. LOVE coming into the world!--the idea pleased his
artistic taste, being simple and sublime. Lois used to tell him,
while she feebly tried to set his room in order, of all her
plans,-- of how Sam Polston was to be married on New-Year's,--but
most of all of the Christmas coming out at the old
school-master's: how the old house had been scrubbed from top to
bottom, was fairly glowing with shining paint and hot fires,--how
Margret Howth: A Story of To-day |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: them the aristocrats, you know; thoroughbreds.
And the Heterozygotes are the hybrids.
Only, of course, they don't need to be goats at
all.
Not but what they COULD be goats, you know, just
as easily as horses or cows or human beings.
But whether goats or humans, don't you think
the great lesson of Heredity is that Blood will Tell?
Really the farther I go into Philosophy and Sci-
ence and such things the more clearly I see what a
fund of truth there is in the old simple proverbs!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: boats specially built for the conveyance of travelers, car-
riages, and horses, the passage of the Yenisei takes about
three hours, and then it is with extreme difficulty that the
boats reach the opposite bank. Now, in the absence of any
ferry, how was the kibitka to get from one bank to the
other?
Day was breaking when the kibitka reached the left bank,
where one of the wide alleys of the park ended. They were
about a hundred feet above the Yenisei, and could therefore
survey the whole of its wide course.
"Do you see a boat?" asked Michael, casting his eyes
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