| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Alack!" thought Dick, "can the poor lad have perished? There is
his horse, for certain - a brave grey! Nay, comrade, if thou
criest to me so piteously, I will do all man can to help thee.
Shalt not lie there to drown by inches!"
And he made ready his crossbow, and put a quarrel through the
creature's head.
Dick rode on after this act of rugged mercy, somewhat sobered in
spirit, and looking closely about him for any sign of his less
happy predecessor in the way. "I would I had dared to tell him
further," he thought; "for I fear he has miscarried in the slough."
And just as he was so thinking, a voice cried upon his name from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: true physical science is, that we ourselves and our own class know
very little about it, and practise it very little. And this
society, I do hope, will bear in mind that it is not simply to
seek the working man, not only to go into the foul alley: but it
is to go to the door of the farmer, to the door of the shopkeeper,
aye, to the door of ladies and gentlemen of the same rank as
ourselves. Women can do in that work what men cannot do. The
private correspondence, private conversation, private example, of
ladies, above all of married women, of mothers of families, may do
what no legislation can do. I am struck more and more with the
amount of disease and death I see around me in all classes, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: assistance whatever in this matter. One of them, a heavy tome
with an iron clasp, was in another unknown alphabet - this one
of a very different cast, and resembling Sanskrit more than anything
else. The old ledger was at length given wholly into the charge
of Dr Armitage, both because of his peculiar interest in the Whateley
matter, and because of his wide linguistic learning and skill
in the mystical formulae of antiquity and the middle ages.
Armitage
had an idea that the alphabet might be something esoterically
used by certain forbidden cults which have come down from old
times, and which have inherited many forms and traditions from
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