| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: behalf of all that is, or calls itself, supernatural and mysterious.
Abjuring, and honestly, all politics, it found itself sucked into
the political whirlpool in spite of itself, as all human interests
which have any life in them must be at last. It became an active
promoter of the Revolution; then it helped to destroy the
Revolution, when that had, under Napoleon, become a levelling
despotism; then it helped, as actively, to keep revolutionary
principles alive, after the reaction of 1815:--a Protean
institution, whose power we in England are as apt to undervalue as
the governments of the Continent were apt, during the eighteenth
century, to exaggerate it. I mean, of course, Freemasonry, and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: Age at which weeping commences--The effects of habitual restraint
on weeping--Sobbing--Cause of the contraction of the muscles round
the eyes during screaming--Cause of the secretion of tears.
IN this and the following chapters the expressions exhibited by Man
under various states of the mind will be described and explained,
as far as lies in my power. My observations will be arranged
according to the order which I have found the most convenient;
and this will generally lead to opposite emotions and sensations
succeeding each other.
_Suffering of the body and mind: weeping_.--I have already
described in sufficient detail, in the third chapter, the signs
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to
be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description
of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the
police headquarters at London. The detective was evidently inspired
by the hope of obtaining the splendid reward which would be the prize
of success, and awaited with a feverish impatience, easy to understand,
the arrival of the steamer Mongolia.
"So you say, consul," asked he for the twentieth time, "that this steamer
is never behind time?"
"No, Mr. Fix," replied the consul. "She was bespoken yesterday at Port Said,
and the rest of the way is of no account to such a craft. I repeat that
Around the World in 80 Days |
