| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: were dragging, steaming gingerly to their moorings, and afraid to
steam too much.
Day came about six, and presented to those on shore a seizing and
terrific spectacle. In the pressure of the squalls the bay was
obscured as if by midnight, but between them a great part of it was
clearly if darkly visible amid driving mist and rain. The wind
blew into the harbour mouth. Naval authorities describe it as of
hurricane force. It had, however, few or none of the effects on
shore suggested by that ominous word, and was successfully
withstood by trees and buildings. The agitation of the sea, on the
other hand, surpassed experience and description. Seas that might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: that he might choose for himself, whether to conquer his passion,
or Love and Despair. Accordingly finding myself this Morning
alone with him in one of the horrid old rooms of this Castle, I
opened the cause to him in the following Manner.
"Well my dear William what do you think of these girls? for my
part, I do not find them so plain as I expected: but perhaps you
may think me partial to the Daughters of my Husband and perhaps
you are right-- They are indeed so very like Sir George that it
is natural to think"--
"My Dear Susan (cried he in a tone of the greatest amazement) You
do not really think they bear the least resemblance to their
Love and Friendship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: studio. Previously, and before making a practical beginning, he
has had an opportunity of following some general and summary
course of instruction, so as to have a framework ready prepared
in which to store the observations he is shortly to make.
Furthermore he is able, as a rule, to avail himself of sundry
technical courses which he can follow in his leisure hours, so as
to co-ordinate step by step the daily experience he is gathering.
Under such a system the practical capabilities increase and
develop of themselves in exact proportion to the faculties of the
student, and in the direction requisite for his future task and
the special work for which from now onwards he desires to fit
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