| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: if there is, where did they come from? For there are no volcanos
in England.
Yes. There are such things in the soil; and little enough of
them, as the farmers here know too well. For we here, in Windsor
Forest, are on the very poorest and almost the newest soil in
England; and when Madam How had used up all her good materials in
making the rest of the island, she carted away her dry rubbish and
shot it down here for us to make the best of; and I do not think
that we and our forefathers have done so very ill with it. But
where the rich part, or staple, of our soils came from first it
would be very difficult to say, so often has Madam How made, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: was heavy with hate. "You promised your daughter to me. She is
engaged to me, and now I find her in this wanderer's arms."
"What have I to do with it?" said Marnham. "Perhaps she has
changed her mind. You had better ask her."
"There is no need to ask me," interrupted Heda, who now seemed to
have got her nerve again. "I _have_ changed my mind. I never
loved you, Dr. Rodd, and I will not marry you. I love Mr.
Anscombe here, and as he has asked me to be his wife I mean to
marry him."
"I see," he sneered, "you want to be a peeress one day, no doubt.
Well, you never shall if I can help it. Perhaps, too, this fine
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: But if he cannot prove the soul's immortality, he who is about to die will
always have reason to fear that when the body is disunited, the soul also
may utterly perish.
All of us, as we afterwards remarked to one another, had an unpleasant
feeling at hearing what they said. When we had been so firmly convinced
before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion and
uncertainty, not only into the previous argument, but into any future one;
either we were incapable of forming a judgment, or there were no grounds of
belief.
ECHECRATES: There I feel with you--by heaven I do, Phaedo, and when you
were speaking, I was beginning to ask myself the same question: What
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