| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: He remarks upon the 'singular independence' of the magnetism and the
body of the magnet which carries it. The steel behaves as if it
were isolated from its own magnetism.
And then his thoughts suddenly widen, and he asks himself whether
the rotating earth does not generate induced currents as it turns
round its axis from west to east. In his experiment with the
twirling magnet the galvanometer wire remained at rest; one portion
of the circuit was in motion relatively to another portion. But in
the case of the twirling planet the galvanometer wire would
necessarily be carried along with the earth; there would be no
relative motion. What must be the consequence? Take the case of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: of the service--he had the sort of voice that brings out
things--and was still teeming with ideas about it when finally a
wild outburst from the organ made it clear that, whatever
snivelling there might be down in the chancel, that excellent
wind instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever
it could be. "Pump, pump, per-um-pump, Pum, Pump, Per-um. . . ."
The wedding-breakfast was for Ann Veronica a spectacle of the
unreal consuming the real; she liked that part very well, until
she was carelessly served against her expressed wishes with
mayonnaise. She was caught by an uncle, whose opinion she
valued, making faces at Roddy because he had exulted at this.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: ought to ask his pardon. Has he not shown already more chivalry,
more self-denial, and therefore more true love, than any of us? My
friends, let the fierceness of affection, which we have used as an
excuse for many a sin of our own, excuse his listening to a
conversation in which he well deserved to bear a part."
"Ah," said Jack, "you make me one of your brotherhood; and see if I
do not dare to suffer as much as any of you! You laugh? Do you
fancy none can use a sword unless he has a baker's dozen of
quarterings in his arms, or that Oxford scholars know only how to
handle a pen?"
"Let us try his metal," said St. Leger. "Here's my sword, Jack;
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