| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in
their action.... This strong persuasion,' he adds, 'extended to the
powers of light.' And then he examines the action of magnets upon
light. From conversation with him and Anderson, I should infer that
the labour preceding this discovery was very great. The world knows
little of the toil of the discoverer. It sees the climber jubilant
on the mountain top, but does not know the labour expended in
reaching it. Probably hundreds of experiments had been made on
transparent crystals before he thought of testing his heavy glass.
Here is his own clear and simple description of the result of his
first experiment with this substance:--'A piece of this glass, about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: become a very familiar scene, this, in the home under the
ground, but we are looking on it for the last time.
There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the
first to recognize it.
"Children, I hear your father's step. He likes you to meet him
at the door."
Above, the redskins crouched before Peter.
"Watch well, braves. I have spoken."
And then, as so often before, the gay children dragged him from
his tree. As so often before, but never again.
He had brought nuts for the boys as well as the correct time
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Lie, and fear, and die daily, beneath their own stings,--
Can excuse the blind boast of inherited wings.
When the soul, on the impulse of anguish, hath pass'd
Beyond anguish, and risen into rapture at last;
When she traverses nature and space, till she stands
In the Chamber of Fate; where, through tremulous hands,
Hum the threads from an old-fashion'd distaff uncurl'd,
And those three blind old women sit spinning the world.
III.
The dark was blanch'd wan, overhead. One green star
Was slipping from sight in the pale void afar;
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