| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: "Not at all--I never saw him; but I fancy he
is very unlike his brother--silly and a great coxcomb."
"A great coxcomb!" repeated Miss Steele, whose ear had
caught those words by a sudden pause in Marianne's music.--
"Oh, they are talking of their favourite beaux, I dare say."
"No sister," cried Lucy, "you are mistaken there, our
favourite beaux are NOT great coxcombs."
"I can answer for it that Miss Dashwood's is not,"
said Mrs. Jennings, laughing heartily; "for he is one
of the modestest, prettiest behaved young men I ever saw;
but as for Lucy, she is such a sly little creature,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: "And was it on the surface of these rocks that you found out
the fire-damp?" asked James Starr.
"Just there, sir," returned Ford, "and I was able to light
it only by bringing my lamp near to the cracks in the rock.
Harry has done it as well as I."
"At what height?" asked Starr.
"Ten feet from the ground," replied Harry.
James Starr had seated himself on a rock. After critically
inhaling the air of the cavern, he gazed at the two miners,
almost as if doubting their words, decided as they were.
In fact, carburetted hydrogen is not completely scentless,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: while it certainly influenced the powerful Will both of Jesus and
of Confucius.
"Then Christianity raised her standard. Subsequently Mahomet fused
Judaism and Christianity, the Bible and the Gospel, in one book,
the Koran, adapting them to the apprehension of the Arab race.
Finally, Swedenborg borrowed from Magianism, Brahmanism, Buddhism,
and Christian mysticism all the truth and divine beauty that those
four great religious books hold in common, and added to them a
doctrine, a basis of reasoning, that may be termed mathematical.
"Any man who plunges into these religious waters, of which the
sources are not all known, will find proofs that Zoroaster, Moses,
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