| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: a father to his daughter, as well as some other analogous facts.[8]
[7] `Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine,' 1862, p. 17.
[8] `The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,'
vol. ii. p. 6. The inheritance of habitual gestures is so important
for us, that I gladly avail myself of Mr. F. Galton's permission
to give in his own words the following remarkable case:--"The
following account of a habit occurring in individuals of three
consecutive generations {footnote continues:} is of peculiar interest,
because it occurs only during sound sleep, and therefore
cannot be due to imitation, but must be altogether natural.
The particulars are perfectly trustworthy, for I have enquired
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: It shall be open to you, so far as safety is concerned, to take your
journey where you will to see the games or other spectacles; or it
shall be open to you to bide at home, and still attain your object.
Before you shall be gathered daily an assembly, a great company of
people willing to display whatever each may happen to possess of
wisdom, worth, or beauty;[10] and another throng of persons eager to
do you service. Present, regard them each and all as sworn allies; or
absent, know that each and all have one desire, to set eyes on you.
[10] Or, "to display their wares of wisdom, beauty, excellence."
The end will be, you shall not be loved alone, but passionately
adored, by human beings. You will not need to woo the fair but to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: MRS. MARCHMONT. [Languidly.] Thank you, Mr. Montford, I never touch
supper. [Rises hastily and takes his arm.] But I will sit beside
you, and watch you.
MR. MONTFORD. I don't know that I like being watched when I am
eating!
MRS. MARCHMONT. Then I will watch some one else.
MR. MONTFORD. I don't know that I should like that either.
MRS. MARCHMONT. [Severely.] Pray, Mr. Montford, do not make these
painful scenes of jealousy in public!
[They go downstairs with the other guests, passing SIR ROBERT
CHILTERN and MRS. CHEVELEY, who now enter.]
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