| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: shut, puffed out to the size of a goose-egg, and blue as indigo. Dick had
certainly landed hard on Bill. Then I turned round to see Dick sitting
against the little sapling, bound fast with a lasso. His clean face did not
look as if he had been in a fight; he was smiling, yet there was anxiety in
his eyes.
"Ken, now you've played hob," he said. It was a reproach, but his look made
me proud.
"Oh, Dick, if you hadn't called out!" I exclaimed.
"Darned if you're not right! But it was a slick job, and you'll tickle Jim
to death. I was an old woman. But that cold knife-blade made me jump."
I glanced round the camp for the Mexican and Bud and the fifth man, but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: Leipzig, that the last demands of the opponents of diamagnetic
polarity were satisfied. The establishment of this point was
absolutely necessary to the explanation of magne-crystallic action.
With that admirable instinct which always guided him, Faraday had
seen that it was possible, if not probable, that the diamagnetic
force acts with different degrees of intensity in different
directions, through the mass of a crystal. In his studies on
electricity, he had sought an experimental reply to the question
whether crystalline bodies had not different specific inductive
capacities in different directions, but he failed to establish any
difference of the kind. His first attempt to establish differences
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: on icebergs, drifted by the prevailing currents, this anomaly disappears.
New Zealand in its endemic plants is much more closely related to
Australia, the nearest mainland, than to any other region: and this is
what might have been expected; but it is also plainly related to South
America, which, although the next nearest continent, is so enormously
remote, that the fact becomes an anomaly. But this difficulty almost
disappears on the view that both New Zealand, South America, and other
southern lands were long ago partially stocked from a nearly intermediate
though distant point, namely from the antarctic islands, when they were
clothed with vegetation, before the commencement of the Glacial period.
The affinity, which, though feeble, I am assured by Dr. Hooker is real,
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