| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: and imprisoning those who had given them their power, though
neither of these at that time had raised a hand against them.
Have you noticed how ready we are to forgive those on our side
for doing that for which we would bitterly condemn our opponents?
The same people who condemn the Empress Dowager for beheading the
six young reformers stand ready to forgive Kuang Hsu for ordering
the decapitation of Jung Lu, and the imprisonment of his
foster-mother.
There were two powerful factions in Peking, the progressives,
headed by Prince Ching; and the conservatives, headed by Jung Lu.
Now the Empress Dowager may have reasoned thus: "The progressives
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: changed between China, Central Asia, and Europe. The
authorities had therefore no fear with regard to admitting
the peasants of the valley of the Angara, and leaving a
desert between the invaders and the town.
Irkutsk is the residence of the governor-general of East-
ern Siberia. Below him acts a civil governor, in whose
hands is the administration of the province; a head of police,
who has much to do in a town where exiles abound; and,
lastly, a mayor, chief of the merchants, and a person of
some importance, from his immense fortune and the in-
fluence which he exercises over the people.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: from the direction of the mountains. The explanation of the
phenomenon was evidently that the water at this spot found chemical
affinities in the upper air, and consequently forsook the ground.
"Now let us drink," said Joiwind.
She threw herself unaffectedly at full length on the sand, face
downward, by the side of the brook, and Maskull was not long in
following her example. She refused to quench her thirst until she
had seen him drink. He found the water heavy, but bubbling with gas.
He drank copiously. It affected his palate in a new way - with the
purity and cleanness of water was combined the exhilaration of a
sparkling wine, raising his spirits - but somehow the intoxication
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