| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the problem so far transcend our grasp that any such speculation
must remain an unverifiable guess. I do not go with Professor
Clifford in doubting whether the laws of mechanics are absolutely
the same throughout eternity; I cannot quite reconcile such a
doubt with faith in the principle of continuity. But it does seem
to me needful, before we conclude that radiated energy is
absolutely and forever wasted, that we should find out what
becomes of it. What we call radiant heat is simply transverse
wave-motion, propagated with enormous velocity through an ocean
of subtle ethereal matter which bathes the atoms of all visible
or palpable bodies and fills the whole of space, extending beyond
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: and more than once protected me from abuse that one or more of the hands
was disposed to throw upon me. While in this situation I had little time
for mental improvement. Hard work, night and day, over a furnace hot
enough to keep the metal running like water, was more favorable
to action than thought; yet here I often nailed a newspaper to the post
near my bellows, and read while I was performing the up and down motion
of the heavy beam by which the bellows was inflated and discharged.
It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now,
after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could
have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my
daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: remove the key and place it in her pocket-pouch, and
he knew that a dagger point driven into the keyhole from
the opposite side would imprison them in the secret
chamber till eight dead worlds circled a cold, dead sun.
As fast as he could run Astok entered the main corridor
that led to the tower chamber. Would he reach the
door in time? What if the Heliumite should have already
emerged and he should run upon him in the passageway?
Astok felt a cold chill run up his spine. He had
no stomach to face that uncanny blade.
He was almost at the door. Around the next turn of the
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