| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: insulator only in degree. They are charged like the particles of
the insulator, but they discharge with greater ease and rapidity;
and this rapidity of molecular discharge is what we call conduction.
Conduction then is always preceded by atomic induction; and when,
through some quality of the body which Faraday does not define, the
atomic discharge is rendered slow and difficult, conduction passes
into insulation.
Though they are often obscure, a fine vein of philosophic thought
runs through those investigations. The mind of the philosopher
dwells amid those agencies which underlie the visible phenomena of
Induction and Conduction; and he tries by the strong light of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: good stout cudgel. He stood the candlestick in the middle of the
room, and taking three candles from his pouch, thrust one into
each branch. Then he struck a light, and lit the first candle.
Instantly there appeared a little old man, clad in a long white
robe, who began dancing and spinning around and around like a
top. He lit the second candle, and a second old man appeared, and
round and round he went, spinning like his brother. He lit the
third candle, and a third old man appeared. Around and around and
around they spun and whirled, until the head spun and whirled to
look at them. Then the old graybeard gripped the cudgel in his
hand. "Are you ready?" he asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: might shout to Mr. Piperson."
Pig-wig sat down again, and
commenced to cry.
"Come away Pig-wig; we can see
when we get used to it. Come!
I can hear them clucking!"
Pigling had never said shuh! to
a hen in his life, being peaceable;
also he remembered the hamper.
He opened the house door quietly
and shut it after them. There was
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