| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: many occasional means of transport. With respect to distinct species of
the same genus inhabiting very distant and isolated regions, as the process
of modification has necessarily been slow, all the means of migration will
have been possible during a very long period; and consequently the
difficulty of the wide diffusion of species of the same genus is in some
degree lessened.
As on the theory of natural selection an interminable number of
intermediate forms must have existed, linking together all the species in
each group by gradations as fine as our present varieties, it may be asked,
Why do we not see these linking forms all around us? Why are not all
organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? With respect to
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: best.
He understood its value, present as a certificate, and
prospective as
an investment.
It was only in the architecture of his town house that he
remained conservative, immovable, one might almost say
Early-Victorian-Christian. His country house at
Dulwich-on-the-Sound
was a palace of the Italian Renaissance. But in town
he adhered to an architecture which had moral associations,
the Nineteenth-Century-Brownstone epoch. It was a symbol of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: perhaps he might even have been afraid to sleep in the next room
to the corpse. Here, nearly a thousand miles from Moscow, all
this was seen somehow in a different light; it was not life,
they were not human beings, but something only existing
"according to the regulation," as Loshadin said; it would leave
not the faintest trace in the memory, and would be forgotten as
soon as he, Lyzhin, drove away from Syrnya. The fatherland, the
real Russia, was Moscow, Petersburg; but here he was in the
provinces, the colonies. When one dreamed of playing a leading
part, of becoming a popular figure, of being, for instance,
examining magistrate in particularly important cases or
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
