| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: the haft of his knife, to bid them prepare for the dance: the
moment the signal was given, the women and girls ran altogether
into a back apartment to tie up their hair, - and the young men to
the door to wash their faces, and change their sabots; and in three
minutes every soul was ready upon a little esplanade before the
house to begin. - The old man and his wife came out last, and
placing me betwixt them, sat down upon a sofa of turf by the door.
The old man had some fifty years ago been no mean performer upon
the vielle, - and at the age he was then of, touch'd it well enough
for the purpose. His wife sung now and then a little to the tune,
- then intermitted, - and join'd her old man again, as their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she
That tempers him to this extremity.
Was it not she and that good man of worship,
Antony Woodville, her brother there,
That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
From whence this present day he is delivered?
We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.
CLARENCE. By heaven, I think there is no man is secure
But the Queen's kindred, and night-walking heralds
That trudge betwixt the King and Mistress Shore.
Heard you not what an humble suppliant
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: action on the polarized ray.
Many substances possess the power of turning the plane of polarization
without the intervention of magnetism. Oil of turpentine and quartz
are examples; but Faraday showed that, while in one direction,
that is, across the lines of magnetic force, his rotation is zero,
augmenting gradually from this until it attains its maximum, when
the direction of the ray is parallel to the lines of force; in the
oil of turpentine the rotation is independent of the direction of
the ray. But he showed that a still more profound distinction
exists between the magnetic rotation and the natural one. I will
try to explain how. Suppose a tube with glass ends containing oil
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