| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: which varies with the distance from the magnet. He then sought a
uniform field of magnetic force, and found it in space as affected
by the magnetism of the earth. His next memoir, sent to the Royal
Society, December 31, 1851, is 'on the employment of the Induced
Magnetoelectro Current as a test and measure of magnetic forces.'
He forms rectangles and rings, and by ingenious and simple devices
collects the opposed currents which are developed in them by
rotation across the terrestrial lines of magnetic force. He varies
the shapes of his rectangles while preserving their areas constant,
and finds that the constant area produces always the same amount of
current per revolution. The current depends solely on the number of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: warning hand.
"Don't do that, Ed! Not in this climate! A man of your build,
too! I'm surprised. Consider the feelings of your firm!"
Fat Ed Meyers glared up at the white-clad, smiling, gracious
figure. His hands unclenched. The words came.
"Oh, if only you were a man for just ten minutes!" he moaned.
II
THANKS TO MISS MORRISSEY
It was Fat Ed Meyers, of the Sans-Silk Skirt Company, who first
said that Mrs. Emma McChesney was the Maude Adams of the business
world. It was on the occasion of his being called to the carpet
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: has recourse to number in order to find out whether the things indicated
are one or more than one. Number replies that they are two and not one,
and are to be distinguished from one another. Again, the sight beholds
great and small, but only in a confused chaos, and not until they are
distinguished does the question arise of their respective natures; we are
thus led on to the distinction between the visible and intelligible. That
was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was
thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. The idea of
unity, for example, like that of a finger, does not arouse thought unless
involving some conception of plurality; but when the one is also the
opposite of one, the contradiction gives rise to reflection; an example of
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