| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: beautiful of all the Adirondack waters--Ampersand Lake.
On its shore, some five-and-twenty years ago, the now almost
forgotten Adirondack Club had their shanty--the successor of "the
Philosophers' Camp" on Follensbee Pond. Agassiz, Appleton, Norton,
Emerson, Lowell, Hoar, Gray, John Holmes, and Stillman, were among
the company who made their resting-place under the shadow of Mount
Seward. They had bought a tract of forest land completely
encircling the pond, cut a rough road to it through the woods, and
built a comfortable log cabin, to which they purposed to return
summer after summer. But the civil war broke out, with all its
terrible excitement and confusion of hurrying hosts: the club
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: cowardly, brute nature in every man and in every age--were shifting the
blame of sin from their own consciences to human relationships and
duties, and therein, to the God who had appointed them; and saying, as
of old, 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat.'"
Much as Christianity did, even in Egypt, for woman, by asserting her
moral and spiritual equality with the man, there seems to have been no
suspicion that she was the true complement of the man, not merely by
softening him, but by strengthening him; that true manhood can be no
more developed without the influence of the woman, than true womanhood
without the influence of the man. There is no trace among the Egyptian
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: to the whole; and the family, like a well-governed city, appears
happy, flourishing, and regular, groaning under no grievance,
pleased with what they enjoy, and enjoying everything which they
ought to be pleased with.
Nor is the blessing of this noble resident extended to the family
only, but even to all the country round, who in their degree feel
the effects of the general beneficence, and where the neighbourhood
(however poor) receive all the good they can expect, and are sure
to have no injury or oppression.
The canal before the house lies parallel with the road, and
receives into it the whole river Willy, or at least is able to do
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