| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: she remained at the Casino less than half an hour. But Bernard had some
talk with Angela. He sat beside her--her mother was on the other side,
talking with an old French lady whose acquaintance she had made
on the beach. Between Bernard and Angela several things were said.
When his friends went away Bernard walked home with them.
He bade them good-night at the door of their chalet, and then
slowly strolled back to the Casino. The terrace was nearly empty;
every one had gone to listen to the operetta, the sound of whose
contemporary gayety came through the open, hot-looking windows in little
thin quavers and catches. The ocean was rumbling just beneath;
it made a ruder but richer music. Bernard stood looking at it a moment;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: inner coating of a Leyden jar. An insulated sphere in the middle of
a room is to his mind such a coating; the walls are the outer coating,
while the air between both is the insulator, across which the charge
acts by induction. Without this reaction of the walls upon the
sphere you could no more, according to Faraday, charge it with
electricity than you could charge a Leyden jar, if its outer coating
were removed. Distance with him is immaterial. His strength as a
generalizer enables him to dissolve the idea of magnitude; and if
you abolish the walls of the room--even the earth itself--he would
make the sun and planets the outer coating of his jar. I dare not
contend that Faraday in these memoirs made all his theoretic
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: they lose sight of Ulterior Ethics and Race Mo-
rality while inculcating Individual Self-Improve-
ment.
It's frightful to think about, isn't it? Simply FRIGHTFUL!
Then and there I resolved that if I were ever a Mother
I would turn over the up-bringing of my children to experts
and savants and specialists like that.
"Papa," I said, "you allowed poor, dear Mamma
to make me selfish -- you know you did! What
have you to say for yourself? What right had you
to make me a Self-Indulgent Individualist?
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