| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: behind his bride again, as if in shame. The dreamer turned his
head languidly, raised his hand to his forehead, and then returned
to his contemplation.
Amyas rested the point of his sword on the ground, and his hands
upon the hilt, and looked sadly and solemnly upon the pair.
Ebsworthy broke the silence, half reproachfully, half trying to
bluster away the coming storm.
"Well, noble captain, so you've hunted out us poor fellows; and
want to drag us back again in a halter, I suppose?"
"I came to look for Christians, and I find heathens; for men, and I
find swine. I shall leave the heathens to their wilderness, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: nature. They were the notes of Farmer Oak's flute.
The tune was not floating unhindered into the open
air: it seemed muffled in some way, and was altogether
too curtailed in power to spread high or wide. It came
from the direction of a small dark object under the
plantation hedge -- a shepherd's hut -- now presenting
an outline to which an uninitiated person might have
been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
The image as a whole was that of a small Noah's
Ark on a small Ararat, allowing the traditionary outlines
and general form of the Ark which are followed by toy-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: altogether dull.
The question of the better or worse education of women is one far
too important for vague sentiment, wild aspirations, or Utopian
dreams.
It is a practical question, on which depends not merely money or
comfort, but too often health and life, as the consequences of a
good education, or disease and death--I know too well of what I
speak--as the consequences of a bad one.
I beg you, therefore, to put out of your minds at the outset any
fancy that I wish for a social revolution in the position of
women; or that I wish to see them educated by exactly the same
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