| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: ashamed of it as it stands. Glimpses of Faraday's character and
gleams of his discoveries are there to be found which will be of
interest to humanity to the end of time.
John Tyndall.
Hind Head,
December, 1893.
[Note.--It was, I believe, my husband's intention to substitute
this Preface, written a few days before his death, for all former
Prefaces. As, however, he had not the opportunity of revising the
old prefatory pages himself, they have been allowed to remain just
as they stood in the last edition.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: speech that he spake anon. It is anxiety for my father's sake and
my mother's sake that I feel, for truly there are great matters
for them pending upon this fight. Ne'theless, I do know that God
will not desert me in my cause, for verily my father is no
traitor."
"But the Earl of Alban," said the Prince, gravely, "is reputed
one of the best-skilled knights in all England; moreover, he is
merciless and without generosity, so that an he gain aught
advantage over thee, he will surely slay thee."
"I am not afraid, my Lord," said Myles, still calmly and
composedly.
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: from the music-room; as she led him, she watched with some anxiety the
slow movement of his feeble feet. They walked painfully across the
boudoir to a door hidden in the hangings. Marianina knocked softly.
Instantly a tall, thin man, a sort of familiar spirit, appeared as if
by magic. Before entrusting the old man to this mysterious guardian,
the lovely child, with deep veneration, kissed the ambulatory corpse,
and her chaste caress was not without a touch of that graceful
playfulness, the secret of which only a few privileged women possess.
"/Addio, addio!/" she said, with the sweetest inflection of her young
voice.
She added to the last syllable a wonderfully executed trill, in a very
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