| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: THE CHAPTER OF THE STORY
(XXVIII. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
TA SIN MIM. Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book; we recite
to thee from the history of Moses and Pharaoh in truth unto a people
who believe.
Verily, Pharaoh was lofty in the land and made the people thereof
sects; one party of them he weakened, slaughtering their sons and
letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilers.
And we wished to be gracious to those who were weakened in the
earth, and to make them models, and to make them the heirs; and to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: saw. Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a
personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. Andy was
educated, too, besides having a lot of useful information. He had
acquired a big amount of experience out of books, and could talk for
hours on any subject connected with ideas and discourse. He had been
in every line of graft from lecturing on Palestine with a lot of magic
lantern pictures of the annual Custom-made Clothiers' Association
convention at Atlantic City to flooding Connecticut with bogus wood
alcohol distilled from nutmegs.
"One Spring me and Andy had been over in Mexico on a flying trip
during which a Philadelphia capitalist had paid us $2,500 for a half
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: frequent gleams of prescient wisdom which will excite admiration
throughout all time; while the facts, relations, principles, and
laws which his experiments have established are sure to form the
body of grand theories yet to come.
Footnotes to Chapter 14
[1] Mr. Clerk Maxwell has recently published an exceedingly
important investigation connected with this question. Even in the
non-mathematical portions of the memoirs of Mr. Maxwell,
the admirable spirit of his philosophy is sufficiently revealed.
As regards the employment of scientific imagery, I hardly know his
equal in power of conception and clearness of definition.
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