| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: caves easily in limestone: but never, I think, in granite. But I
knew that besides these cold springs which came out of the caves,
there were hot springs also, full of curious chemical salts, just
below the very house where I was in. And when I went to look at
them, I found that they came out of the rock just where the
limestone and the granite joined. "Ah," I said, "now I think I
have Madam How's answer. The lid of one of her great steam
boilers is rather shaky and cracked just here, because the granite
has broken and torn the limestone as it lifted it up; and here is
the hot water out of the boiler actually oozing out of the crack;
and the earthquake I heard last night was simply the steam
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: uprising of the upper tier of the bourgeoisie, or capitalist class--the
aristocracy of finance-- overthrew the Bourbon throne, or landed
aristocracy, and set up the throne of Orleans, a younger branch of the
house of Bourbon, with Louis Philippe as king. From the month in which
this revolution occurred, Louis Philippe's monarchy is called the "July
Monarchy. "In February, 1848, a revolt of a lower tier of the
capitalist class-the industrial bourgeoisie--, against the aristocracy
of finance, in turn dethroned Louis Philippe. The affair, also named
from the month in which it took place, is the "February Revolution.
"The "Eighteenth Brumaire" starts with that event
Despite the inapplicableness to our affairs of the political names and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: I could not say. He was tall, had a large forehead,
straight nose, a clearly cut mouth, beautiful teeth, with fine
taper hands, indicative of a highly nervous temperament.
This man was certainly the most admirable specimen I had ever met.
One particular feature was his eyes, rather far from each other,
and which could take in nearly a quarter of the horizon at once.
This faculty--(I verified it later)--gave him a range of vision far superior
to Ned Land's. When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met,
his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision,
and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if
he pierced those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read
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