| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why the
same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, and in
individuals of different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not
so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather or
grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often
transmitted from one sex to both sexes or to one sex alone, more commonly
but not exclusively to the like sex. It is a fact of some little
importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in the males of our domestic
breeds are often transmitted either exclusively, or in a much greater
degree, to males alone. A much more important rule, which I think may be
trusted, is that, at whatever period of life a peculiarity first appears,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: can easily learn it by himself; and so they are content to let the
parishes decay and become desolate, and pastors and preachers to suffer
distress and hunger a plenty, just as it becomes crazy Germans to do.
For we Germans have such disgraceful people, and must endure them.
But for myself I say this: I am also a doctor and preacher, yea, as
learned and experienced as all those may be who have such presumption
and security; yet I do as a child who is being taught the Catechism,
and every morning, and whenever I have time, I read and say, word for
word, the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Psalms,
etc. And I must still read and study daily, and yet I cannot master it
as I wish, but must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: faded out altogether, and her husband mourned her as heartily
as she would have bemoaned the demise of the most insignificant
neighbor. After her death, being left childless, he had
nothing to do but to make money, and he naturally made it.
Having taken his primary financial education in New England, he
graduated at that great business university, Chicago, and then
entered on the public practice of wealth in New York.
Aunt Jane had perhaps done injustice to the personal appearance
of Mr. John Lambert. His features were irregular, but not
insignificant, and there was a certain air of slow command
about him, which made some persons call him handsome. He was
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