| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an
absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a
competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must
be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;
but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the
consideration of my readers.'[1]
Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles.
And yet, by transferring the conception from masses to particles,
we simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality
of the conception. Whatever difficulty the mind experiences in
conceiving of action at sensible distances, besets it also when it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: CREON
In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."
OEDIPUS
Was he within his palace, or afield,
Or traveling, when Laius met his fate?
CREON
Abroad; he started, so he told us, bound
For Delphi, but he never thence returned.
OEDIPUS
Came there no news, no fellow-traveler
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: eternally; but of definite data they had nothing to give. So Carter
and his party thanked them kindly; and, crossing the topmost granite
pinnacles to the skies of Inquanok, dropped below the level of
the phosphorescent night clouds and beheld in the distance those
terrible squatting gargoyles that were mountains till some titan
hand carved fright into their virgin rock.
There they squatted
in a hellish half-circle, their legs on the desert sand and their
mitres piercing the luminous clouds; sinister, wolflike, and double-headed,
with faces of fury and right hands raised, dully and malignly
watching the rim of man's world and guarding with horror the reaches
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