| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature,
reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wilderness is a green wood, her
wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature,
but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when
her wild animals, but not when the wild man in her, became
extinct.
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing.
The poet today, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science,
and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over
Homer.
Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: computers we used then didn't have lower case at all.
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 [This was November 21, old style calendar]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: minutes; and should you interrupt the vision by speaking a single
word, not only would the charm be broken, but some danger might
result to the spectators. But if you can remain steadily silent
for the seven minutes, your curiosity will be gratified without
the slightest risk; and for this I will engage my honour."
Internally Lady Bothwell thought the security was but an
indifferent one; but she suppressed the suspicion, as if she had
believed that the adept, whose dark features wore a half-formed
smile, could in reality read even her most secret reflections. A
solemn pause then ensued, until Lady Forester gathered courage
enough to reply to the physician, as he termed himself, that she
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