| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: our large hostess returned to the little room with a mist about her
from standing long in the wet doorway, and the sudden draught of
her coming beat out the smoke and flame from the Franklin stove.
"How did poor Joanna look?"
"She was the same as ever, except I thought she looked
smaller," answered Mrs. Todd after thinking a moment; perhaps it
was only a last considering thought about her patient.
"Yes, she was just the same, and looked very nice, Joanna did. I
had been married since she left home, an' she treated me like her
own folks. I expected she'd look strange, with her hair turned
gray in a night or somethin', but she wore a pretty gingham dress
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: men, and mend their world themselves? To educate men into self-
government--that is the purpose of the government of God; and some
of the men of the eighteenth century did not learn that lesson. As
the century rolled on, the human mind arose out of the slough in
which Le Sage found it, into manifold and beautiful activity,
increasing hatred of shams and lies, increasing hunger after truth
and usefulness. With mistakes and confusions innumerable they
worked: but still they worked; planting good seed; and when the
fire of the French Revolution swept over the land, it burned up the
rotten and the withered, only to let the fresh herbage spring up
from underneath.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: of circumstances, appears in the parent--say, once amongst several million
individuals--and it reappears in the child, the mere doctrine of chances
almost compels us to attribute its reappearance to inheritance. Every one
must have heard of cases of albinism, prickly skin, hairy bodies, &c.,
appearing in several members of the same family. If strange and rare
deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner
deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Perhaps the correct
way of viewing the whole subject, would be, to look at the inheritance of
every character whatever as the rule, and non-inheritance as the anomaly.
The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why the
same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, and in
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