| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: beaten tracks of motionless earth, jostling rivulets of
vehicles between narrow footways. But this roadway
was three hundred feet across, and it moved; it moved,
all save the middle, the lowest part. For a moment,
the motion dazzled his mind. Then he understood.
Under the balcony this extraordinary roadway ran
swiftly to Graham's right, an endless flow rushing
along as fast as a nineteenth century express train, an
endless platform of narrow transverse overlapping
slats with little interspaces that permitted it to follow
the curvatures of the street. Upon it were seats, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Consider the madrepores, corallines, or sponges. You find, for
instance, that constantly the little self of the coralline or
sponge is functioning at the end of a stem and casting forth its
tentacles into the water to gain food and to breathe the air out
of the water. That little animalcule there, which is living in
that way, imagines no doubt that it is working all for itself,
and yet it is united down the stem at whose extremity it stands,
with the life of the whole madrepore or sponge to which it
belongs. There is the common life of the whole and the individual
life of each, and while the little creature at the end of the
stem is thinking (if it is conscious at all) that its whole
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with
his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy
and malice, editors are. This picture will serve to remind you
that Edward II. was the first English king who was DEPOSED. Upon
demand, he signed his deposition himself. He had found kingship
a most aggravating and disagreeable occupation, and you can see
by the look of him that he is glad he resigned. He has put his
blue pencil up for good now. He had struck out many a good thing
with it in his time.
Edward III. next; fifty RED squares. (Fig. 15.)
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-
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