| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: of a diagnosis--as to the philosophy of medial evidence--any glimmering
of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country
practitioners have usually no more notion than the man in the moon."
Mr. Bulstrode, bending and looking intently, found the form
which Lydgate had given to his agreement not quite suited to
his comprehension. Under such circumstances a judicious man changes
the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful.
"I am aware," he said, "that the peculiar bias of medical
ability is towards material means. Nevertheless, Mr. Lydgate,
I hope we shall not vary in sentiment as to a measure in which
you are not likely to be actively concerned, but in which your
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: work upon one of the blocks from Mylnefield quarry, which was
prepared in the course of the following day, as the stone-
cutters relieved each other, and worked both night and day, so
that it was sent off in one of the stone-lighters without
delay.
[Saturday, 9th July]
The site of the foundation-stone was very difficult to
work, from its depth in the rock; but being now nearly
prepared, it formed a very agreeable kind of pastime at high-
water for all hands to land the stone itself upon the rock.
The landing-master's crew and artificers accordingly entered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: the history of hypnotism; it belongs to the history of the world.
Dr. Liegeois himself, in coming to this court to-day, has
fallen a victim to the suggestion of the young advocate who has
persuaded him to come here to air his theories." The Court
wisely declined to allow an attempt to be made to hypnotise the
woman Bompard in the presence of her judges, and M. Henri
Robert, her advocate, in his appeal to the jury, threw over
altogether any idea of hypnotic suggestion, resting his plea on
the moral weakness and irresponsibility of his client.
[18] Moll in his "Hypnotism" (London, 1909) states that, after
Gabrielle Bompard's release M. Liegeois succeeded in putting
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
