| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: things at their very best, assuming that the average demand
for tubes per engine will be that of normal times, then, if
1,000 engines are to be repaired monthly, 150,000 tubes will
be wanted every six months. Now on the 15th of June the
total stock of tubes ready for use was 58,000, and the
railways could not expect to get more than another 13,000 in
the near future. Unless the factories are able to do better
(and their improvement depends on improvement in
transport), railway repairs must again deteriorate, since the
main source of materials for it in Russia, namely the dead
engines, will presently be exhausted.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: Seems from such marble harmonies to ring
With sweeter song than common lips can dare
To draw from actual reed? ah! where is now
The cunning hand which made the flowering hawthorn branches bow
For Southwell's arch, and carved the House of One
Who loved the lilies of the field with all
Our dearest English flowers? the same sun
Rises for us: the seasons natural
Weave the same tapestry of green and grey:
The unchanged hills are with us: but that Spirit hath passed away.
And yet perchance it may be better so,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: round hole and sends out a puff of smoke. The outside of the ring
is kept back by the friction of his lips while the inside is
going forwards; thus a rotation is set up all round the
smoke-ring as it travels out into the air." In these cases, and
in others as we commonly find it, vortex-motion owes its origin
to friction and is after a while brought to an end by friction.
But in 1858 the equations of motion of an incompressible
frictionless fluid were first successfully solved by Helmholtz,
and among other things he proved that, though vortex-motion could
not be originated in such a fluid, yet supposing it once to
exist, it would exist to all eternity and could not be diminished
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