| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: induced in the primary wire itself at the moments of making and
breaking contact, the phenomena of which he described and
illustrated in the beautiful and exhaustive paper referred to.
Seven-and-thirty years have passed since the discovery of
magneto-electricity; but, if we except the extra current, until
quite recently nothing of moment was added to the subject. Faraday
entertained the opinion that the discoverer of a great law or
principle had a right to the 'spoils'--this was his term--arising
from its illustration; and guided by the principle he had discovered,
his wonderful mind, aided by his wonderful ten fingers, overran in a
single autumn this vast domain, and hardly left behind him the shred
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial
tour. Mrs. Bird, looking the very picture of delight, was
superintending the arrangements of the table, ever and anon mingling
admonitory remarks to a number of frolicsome juveniles, who were
effervescing in all those modes of untold gambol and mischief that
have astonished mothers ever since the flood.
"Tom, let the door-knob alone,--there's a man! Mary! Mary!
don't pull the cat's tail,--poor pussy! Jim, you mustn't climb on
that table,--no, no!--You don't know, my dear, what a surprise it
is to us all, to see you here tonight!" said she, at last, when
she found a space to say something to her husband.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: "And SOME time they were fighters--else why a fortress?"
I said we were free of the garden, but not wholly alone in it.
There was always a string of those uncomfortably strong women
sitting about, always one of them watching us even if the others
were reading, playing games, or busy at some kind of handiwork.
"When I see them knit," Terry said, "I can almost call them
feminine."
"That doesn't prove anything," Jeff promptly replied.
"Scotch shepherds knit--always knitting."
"When we get out--" Terry stretched himself and looked at
the far peaks, "when we get out of this and get to where the real
Herland |
