| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: Rough customer as he was, Desplein grasped the water-carrier's
hand, and said, "Bring them all to me."
He got the native of Cantal into the Hotel-Dieu, where he took
the greatest care of him. Bianchon had already observed in his
chief a predilection for Auvergnats, and especially for water
carriers; but as Desplein took a sort of pride in his cures at
the Hotel-Dieu, the pupil saw nothing very strange in that.
One day, as he crossed the Place Saint-Sulpice, Bianchon caught
sight of his master going into the church at about nine in the
morning. Desplein, who at that time never went a step without his
cab, was on foot, and slipped in by the door in the Rue du Petit-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: which we live. Surely there is no reason why such a temper should
overtake old age. There may be reason enough, "in the nature of
things." For that which is of nature is born only to decay and die.
But in man there is more than dying nature; there is spirit, and a
capability of spiritual and everlasting life, which renews its youth
like the eagle's, and goes on from strength to strength, and which, if
it have its autumns and its winters, has no less its ever-recurring
springs and summers; if it has its Sabbaths, finds in them only rest and
refreshment for coming labour. And why not in nations, societies,
scientific schools? These too are not merely natural: they are
spiritual, and are only living and healthy in as far as they are in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: seen, unnecessary. These poems may indeed be compared, in a
certain sense, with the early sacred and epic literature of
the Jews, Indians, and Teutons. But if we assign a plurality
of composers to the Psalms and Pentateuch, the Mahabharata,
the Vedas, and the Edda, we do so because of internal evidence
furnished by the books themselves, and not because these books
could not have been preserved by oral tradition. Is there,
then, in the Homeric poems any such internal evidence of dual
or plural origin as is furnished by the interlaced Elohistic
and Jehovistic documents of the Pentateuch? A careful
investigation will show that there is not. Any scholar who has
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