| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: great question of terrestrial magnetism. The rapidity with which
these ever-augmenting thoughts assumed the form of experiments is
unparalleled. His power in this respect is often best illustrated by
his minor investigations, and, perhaps, by none more strikingly than
by his paper 'On the Diamagnetic Condition of Flame and Gases,'
published as a letter to Mr. Richard Taylor, in the 'Philosophical
Magazine' for December, 1847. After verifying, varying, and
expanding the results of Bancalari, he submitted to examination
heated air-currents, produced by platinum spirals placed in the
magnetic field, and raised to incandescence by electricity. He then
examined the magnetic deportment of gases generally. Almost all of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: yielded by pitiful mimicry of Nature's stupendous laboratory; and
from such grains enough of the essence might, perhaps, have been
drawn forth, to add a few years of existence to some feeble
graybeard--granting, what rests on no proofs, that some of the
alchemists reached an age rarely given to man. But it is not in
the miserly crucible, it is in the matrix of Nature herself, that
we must seek in prolific abundance Nature's grand principle--life.
As the loadstone is rife with the magnetic virtue, as amber
contains the electric, so in this substance, to which we yet want a
name, is found the bright life-giving fluid. In the old gold mines
of Asia and Europe the substance exists, but can rarely be met
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: " 'It's a woman,' said Sarrasine, thinking that no one could overhear
him. 'There's some secret intrigue beneath all this. Cardinal
Cicognara is hoodwinking the Pope and the whole city of Rome!'
"The sculptor at once left the salon, assembled his friends, and lay
in wait in the courtyard of the palace. When Zambinella was assured of
Sarrasine's departure he seemed to recover his tranquillity in some
measure. About midnight after wandering through the salons like a man
looking for an enemy, the /musico/ left the party. As he passed
through the palace gate he was seized by men who deftly gagged him
with a handkerchief and placed him in the carriage hired by Sarrasine.
Frozen with terror, Zambinella lay back in a corner, not daring to
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