| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: perpetua vita, felicitatem Helvetiorum bello esse perspectam. Itaque se
quod in longiorem diem conlaturus fuisset repraesentaturum et proxima
nocte de quarta, vigilia castra moturum, ut quam primum intellegere posset
utrum apud eos pudor atque officium an timor plus valeret. Quod si
praeterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum sola decima legione iturum, de qua
non dubitet, sibique eam praetoriam cohortem futuram. Huic legioni Caesar
et indulserat praecipue et propter virtutem confidebat maxime.
Hac oratione habita mirum in modum conversae sunt omnium mentes
summaque alacritas et cupiditas belli gerendi innata est, princepsque X.
legio per tribunos militum ei gratias egit quod de se optimum iudicium
fecisset, seque esse ad bellum gerendum paratissimam confirmavit. Deinde
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: his tavern-museum in Cheyne Walk. Where all was chaos, every man
was useful who could contribute a single spot of organized standing
ground in the shape of a fact or a specimen. But it is a question
whether Natural History would have ever attained its present
honours, had not Geology arisen, to connect every other branch of
Natural History with problems as vast and awful as they are
captivating to the imagination. Nay, the very opposition with
which Geology met was of as great benefit to the sister sciences as
to itself. For, when questions belonging to the most sacred
hereditary beliefs of Christendom were supposed to be affected by
the verification of a fossil shell, or the proving that the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: besides, you don't know all," she added, in a troubled voice.
Ursula had refused to receive letters by the post. But that afternoon,
without being able even to guess at the nature of the trick, she had
found, a few moments before Savinien's arrival, a letter tossed on her
sofa which contained the words: "Tremble! a rejected lover can become
a tiger."
Withstanding Savinien's entreaties, she refused to tell him, out of
prudence, the secret of her fears. The delight of seeing him again,
after she had thought him lost to her, could alone have made her
recover from the mortal chill of terror. The expectation of indefinite
evil is torture to every one; suffering assumes the proportions of the
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