| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: to get up. If he slips off an edge, he tries to double
his fore legs under him and slide. Should he find
himself in a tight place, he waits patiently for you to
help him, and then proceeds gingerly. A friend of
mine rode a horse named Blue. One day, the trail
being slippery with rain, he slid and fell. My friend
managed a successful jump, but Blue tumbled about
thirty feet to the bed of the canon. Fortunately he
was not injured. After some difficulty my friend
managed to force his way through the chaparral to
where Blue stood. Then it was fine to see them.
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: were larger in every dimension, They failed both with
powdered felspar and quartz. One tube, formed with
pounded glass, was very nearly an inch long, namely .982,
and had an internal diameter of .019 of an inch. When we
hear that the strongest battery in Paris was used, and that
its power on a substance of such easy fusibility as glass was
to form tubes so diminutive, we must feel greatly astonished
at the force of a shock of lightning, which, striking the sand
in several places, has formed cylinders, in one instance of at
least thirty feet long, and having an internal bore, where not
compressed, of full an inch and a half; and this in a material
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: aspect acting in harmony and then again opposed. They introduce a system
and order into the knowledge of our being; and yet, like many other general
terms, are often in advance of our actual analysis or observation.
According to some writers the inward sense is only the fading away or
imperfect realization of the outward. But this leaves out of sight one
half of the phenomenon. For the mind is not only withdrawn from the world
of sense but introduced to a higher world of thought and reflection, in
which, like the outward sense, she is trained and educated. By use the
outward sense becomes keener and more intense, especially when confined
within narrow limits. The savage with little or no thought has a quicker
discernment of the track than the civilised man; in like manner the dog,
|
