| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: it does in sublunary regions."
"We will try, Axel, for we must penetrate all secrets of these newly
discovered regions."
"But where are we, uncle? for I have not yet asked you that question,
and your instruments must be able to furnish the answer."
"Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
"So much as that?"
"I am sure of not being a mile out of my reckoning."
"And does the compass still show south-east?"
"Yes; with a westerly deviation of nineteen degrees forty-five
minutes, just as above ground. As for its dip, a curious fact is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: reserved for Jews, while for the Roman tyrants of Judaea is
reserved a fearful retribution. They are to be trodden underfoot
by the Messiah, like grapes in a wine-press, until the gushing
blood shall rise to the height of the horse's bridle.
In the writings of Paul the dogma of the resurrection assumes a
very different aspect. Though Paul, like the older apostles, held
that Jesus, as the Messiah, was to return to the earth within a
few years, yet to his catholic mind this anticipated event had
become divested of its narrow Jewish significance. In the eyes of
Paul, the religion preached by Jesus was an abrogation of
Mosaism, and the truths contained in it were a free gift to the
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: gentleman. But what would he be next? She had an insistent memory
of a heavenly flood of music broken by a horrible discord of
raucous oaths.
It was he that lingered over their breakfast, loath to make the
first move to bring him back into realities; and it was she that
had to suggest the need of setting out. But once on his feet, he
saddled and packed swiftly, with a deftness born of experience.
"We'll have to ask Two-step to carry double to-day," he said, as
he helped her to a place behind him.
Two-step had evidently made an end of the bronco spree upon which
he had been the evening before, for he submitted sedately to his
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