| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: Truth, nor as fair as Beauty.''
``You may think that, but will you say the other?''
``Say that church or kingdom exactly matches Truth and
Beauty?''
``That is what I am sure you will have to say.''
``Then, no!''
``I do not see,'' she said, ``that I can do anything for
you.''
There was a chair beside her. She sat down, her chin on
her hand and her eyes lowered. Silence held save for the
fountain plashing. Don Enrique stood by the railing, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: and notary Goupil will have undone some of the evil deeds of Goupil
the clerk."
After asking the Nemours doctor to lend him his horse and cabriolet,
he went back to Ursula's house for the two important volumes and for
her own certificate of Funds; then, armed with the extract from the
inventory, he drove to Fontainebleau and had an interview with the
procureur du roi. Bongrand easily convinced that official of the theft
of the three certificates by one or other of the heirs,--presumably by
Minoret.
"His conduct is explained," said the procureur.
As a measure of precaution the magistrate at once notified the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: says E. Forbes, after bewailing the vagueness of most naturalists,
"about the identity of any animal Montagu described. . . . He was a
forward-looking philosopher; he spoke of every creature as if one
exceeding like it, yet different from it, would be washed up by the
waves next tide. Consequently his descriptions are permanent."
Scientific men will recognize in this the highest praise which can
be bestowed, because it attributes to him the highest faculty - The
Art of Seeing; but the study and the book would not have given
that. It is God's gift wheresoever educated: but its true school-
room is the camp and the ocean, the prairie and the forest; active,
self-helping life, which can grapple with Nature herself: not
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