| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: "How he lies! Oh! how he lies even about what our eyes saw,"
said Cetewayo reflectively as I blundered past him back to my
seat, on which I sank half swooning. When I got my wits again
the figure that pretended to be Mameena was speaking, I suppose
in answer to some question of Zikali's which I had not heard. It
said--
"O Lord of the Spirits, you have called me from the land of
Spirits to make reply as to two matters which have not yet
happened upon the earth. These replies I will give but no
others, since the mortal strength that I have borrowed returns
whence it came. The first matter is, if there be war between the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: earth owing to the exhaustion of the fuel supply during the
homeward trip; the increased task imposed upon the motor, which
had to battle hard to make headway, caused the fuel consumption
per mile to exceed calculations.
Then the venturesome airman cannot neglect another factor which
is adverse to his success. Hostile airmen lie in wait, and a
fleet of aeroplanes is kept ready for instant service. They
permit the invader to penetrate well into their territory and
then ascend behind him to cut off his retreat. True, the invader
has the advantage of being on the wing, while the ether is wide
and deep, without any defined channels of communication. But
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: bosom of the shudder with which it was then convulsed. The ideal
solution, failing the fee at Kent Mulville's door, would have been
some system of subscription to projected treatises with their non-
appearance provided for--provided for, I mean, by the indulgence of
subscribers. The author's real misfortune was that subscribers
were so wretchedly literal. When they tastelessly enquired why
publication hadn't ensued I was tempted to ask who in the world had
ever been so published. Nature herself had brought him out in
voluminous form, and the money was simply a deposit on borrowing
the work.
CHAPTER V
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