| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: thoroughly carried out, you would see a sensible and large
increase in the rate of population. When you have saved your
children alive, then you must settle what to do with them. But a
living dog is better than a dead lion; I would rather have the
living child, and let it take its chance, than let it return to
God--wasted. O! it is a distressing thing to see children die.
God gives the most beautiful and precious thing that earth can
have, and we just take it and cast it away; we toss our pearls
upon the dunghill and leave them. A dying child is to me one of
the most dreadful sights in the world. A dying man, a man dying
on the field of battle--that is a small sight; he has taken his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: dispassionately. . . "I mean, alive."
He mumbled something which I really did not catch, and I turned my
ear to him in a puzzled manner. He fairly bawled:
"The land - I say, the mainland is at least seven miles off my
anchorage."
"About that."
My lack of excitement, of curiosity, of surprise, of any sort of
pronounced interest, began to arouse his distrust. But except for
the felicitous pretence of deafness I had not tried to pretend
anything. I had felt utterly incapable of playing the part of
ignorance properly, and therefore was afraid to try. It is also
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: as I believe. Now, if I could persuade him to have one or two
rooms made habitable, and to let them to me as a stranger, I might
live there, with my child, under an assumed name, and still support
myself by my favourite art. He should lend me the money to begin
with, and I would pay him back, and live in lowly independence and
strict seclusion, for the house stands in a lonely place, and the
neighbourhood is thinly inhabited, and he himself should negotiate
the sale of my pictures for me. I have arranged the whole plan in
my head: and all I want is to persuade Frederick to be of the same
mind as myself. He is coming to see me soon, and then I will make
the proposal to him, having first enlightened him upon my
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