| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: crevice from the sea I watched such of them as appeared,
trying to judge from their gestures and appearance how the death
of Moreau and Montgomery and the destruction of the House of Pain
had affected them. I know now the folly of my cowardice.
Had I kept my courage up to the level of the dawn, had I not
allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped
the vacant sceptre of Moreau and ruled over the Beast People.
As it was I lost the opportunity, and sank to the position of a mere
leader among my fellows.
Towards noon certain of them came and squatted basking in the hot sand.
The imperious voices of hunger and thirst prevailed over my dread.
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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: between them could be changed, then the light would be, in part at
least, transmitted. In Faraday's experiment this was accomplished.
His magnet turned the plane of polarization of the beam through a
certain angle, and thus enabled it to get through the analyzer;
so that 'the magnetization of light and the illumination of the
magnetic lines of force' becomes, when expressed in the language of
modern theory, the rotation of the plane of polarization.
To him, as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was
its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of
scientific truth. Hence, having established the existence of a
phenomenon, his habit was to look at it from all possible points of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: convulsion. Clots of blood besprinkled the beard. The closed eyelids
had a shell-like transparency, and the candelabra on every side
lighted up the gruesome object with terrible distinctness.
Mannaeus arrived at the table where the priests were seated. One of
them turned the charger about curiously, to look at the head from all
sides. Then Mannaeus, having entirely regained his courage, placed the
charger before Aulus, who had just awakened from a short doze; and
finally he brought it again to Antipas and set it down upon the table
beside him. Tears were running down the cheeks of the tetrarch.
The lights began to flicker and die out. The guests departed, and at
last no one remained in the great hall save Antipas, who sat leaning
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