| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: them all is the breadth of Providence. How many who have deemed
themselves antagonists will smile hereafter, when they look back
upon the world's wide harvest field, and perceive that, in
unconscious brotherhood, they were helping to bind the selfsame
sheaf!
But, come! The sun is hastening westward, while the march of
human life, that never paused before, is delayed by our attempt
to rearrange its order. It is desirable to find some
comprehensive principle, that shall render our task easier by
bringing thousands into the ranks where hitherto we have brought
one. Therefore let the trumpet, if possible, split its brazen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: passed on through the room. The door from the bedroom to the study
stood open. In the latter room the shutters were tightly closed,
and the lamp had long since gone out. But sufficient light fell
through the open bedroom door for the men to see the figure of the
Professor seated at his desk, and when Johann had opened the
shutters, it was plain to all that the silent figure before them
was that of a corpse.
"Heart disease, probably," murmured the physician, as he touched
the icy forehead. Then he felt the pulse of the stiffened hand
from which the pen had fallen in the moment of death, raised the
drooping head and lifted up the half-closed eyelids. The eyes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: like Bitias and Pandarus in the AEneid, ready to defend the
entrance if aught hostile had ventured an intrusion.
When the travellers were admitted into the court, they found
additional preparations for defence. The walls were scaffolded
for the use of fire-arms, and one or two of the small guns,
called sackers, or falcons, were mounted at the angles and
flanking turrets.
More domestics, both in the Highland and Lowland dress, instantly
rushed from the anterior of the mansion, and some hastened to
take the horses of the strangers, while others waited to marshal
them a way into the dwelling-house. But Captain Dalgetty refused
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