| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: by boat to meet the ships."
"Where on earth are the cattle driven down to the river?" asked
Duane.
"Thet's not my secret," replied Euchre, shortly. "Fact is, I
don't know. I've rustled cattle for Bland, but he never sent me
through the Rim Rock with them."
Duane experienced a sort of pleasure in the realization that
interest had been stirred in him. He was curious about Bland
and his gang, and glad to have something to think about. For
every once in a while he had a sensation that was almost like a
pang. He wanted to forget. In the next hour he did forget, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: And in her quarrel venture life and limb.
With sighs and tears she gan them softly pray
To keep that promise, when the skies were dim,
To this and that knight did she plain and say,
What grief she felt to part withouten him:
Meanwhile the ten had donned their armor best,
And taken leave of Godfrey and the rest.
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The duke advised them every one apart,
How light, how trustless was the Pagan's faith,
And told what policy, what wit, what art,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: differs from his neighbor's may be gathered from the fact, that
while a common coolie in Japan spends his spare time in playing a
chess twice as complicated as ours, the most advanced philosopher
is still on the blissfully ignorant side of the pons asinorum.
We find, then, that in all three points the Far East fulfils what
our theory demanded.
There is one more consideration worthy of notice. We said that the
environment had not been the deus ex materia in the matter; but that
the soul itself possessed the germ of its own evolution. This fact
does not, however, preclude another, that the environment has helped
in the process. Change of scene is beneficial to others besides
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