| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: flasks, and then stop up the opening."
My advice was followed so far as getting in a supply; but the
stopping up of the hole was not so easy to accomplish. It was in vain
that we took up fragments of granite, and stuffed them in with tow,
we only scalded our hands without succeeding. The pressure was too
great, and our efforts were fruitless.
"It is quite plain," said I, "that the higher body of this water is
at a considerable elevation. The force of the jet shows that."
"No doubt," answered my uncle. "If this column of water is 32,000
feet high - that is, from the surface of the earth, it is equal to
the weight of a thousand atmospheres. But I have got an idea."
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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: nothing; and the law of conservation makes no statement regarding
that quality. It takes the facts of attraction as they stand, and
affirms only the constancy of working-power. That power may exist
in the form of MOTION; or it may exist in the form of FORCE, with
distance to act through. The former is dynamic energy, the latter
is potential energy, the constancy of the sum of both being affirmed
by the law of conservation. The convertibility of natural forces
consists solely in transformations of dynamic into potential, and of
potential into dynamic, energy, which are incessantly going on.
In no other sense has the convertibility of force, at present,
any scientific meaning.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
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