| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: will.
But in many a case the lava does not stop. It rolls on and on
over the downs and through the valleys, till it reaches the sea-
shore, as it did in Hawaii in the Sandwich Islands this very year.
And then it cools, of course; but often not before it has killed
the fish by its sulphurous gases and heat, perhaps for miles
around. And there is good reason to believe that the fossil fish
which we so often find in rocks, perfect in every bone, lying
sometimes in heaps, and twisted (as I have seen them) as if they
had died suddenly and violently, were killed in this very way,
either by heat from lava streams, or else by the bursting up of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: paper money, or money from some cheap metal with which they could
repudiate their debts. Banks could not collect their loans,
merchants could not get money for their goods, manufacturers were
swamped by their pay-rolls and had to discharge their men. Coxey
was raising a great army of idle men to march on Washington and
demand that the government should feed and clothe the people.
All my savings had long since gone, and from the high life in
the Pie Boarding-House I had descended to my days of bread and
water. All men were in a common misery. If a hobo managed to get
a steak and cook it in the bushes by the railroad track, the
smell of it would draw a score of hungry men into the circle of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: place. A current of air rushed up the tube, forcible
enough to have extinguished a candle held at the
orifice.
It has been said that mere ease after torment is de-
light for a time; and the countenances of these poor
creatures expressed it now. Forty-nine operations were
successfully performed. Owing to the great hurry
necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock,
Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only --
striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow
at once upon the suffering ewe. Four had died; three
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