| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: definition of the term practical, and make it include all that
elevates and enlightens the intellect, as well as all that ministers
to the bodily health and comfort of men. Still, if needed, an answer
of another kind might be given to the question 'What is its use?'
As far as electricity has been applied for medical purposes, it has
been almost exclusively Faraday's electricity. You have noticed
those lines of wire which cross the streets of London. It is
Faraday's currents that speed from place to place through these
wires. Approaching the point of Dungeness, the mariner sees an
unusually brilliant light, and from the noble phares of La Heve the
same light flashes across the sea. These are Faraday's sparks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: time Pelet bore with my frigid demeanour very patiently; he even
increased his attentions; but finding that even a cringing
politeness failed to thaw or move me, he at last altered too; in
his turn he cooled; his invitations ceased; his countenance
became suspicious and overcast, and I read in the perplexed yet
brooding aspect of his brow, a constant examination and
comparison of premises, and an anxious endeavour to draw thence
some explanatory inference. Ere long, I fancy, he succeeded, for
he was not without penetration; perhaps, too, Mdlle. Zoraide
might have aided him in the solution of the enigma; at any rate I
soon found that the uncertainty of doubt had vanished from his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: Cornelius?
This point, we believe, might be more readily decided than
the other.
However that may have been, from that moment life became
sweet, and again full of interest to the prisoner.
Rosa, as we have seen, had returned to him one of the
suckers.
Every evening she brought to him, handful by handful, a
quantity of soil from that part of the garden which he had
found to be the best, and which, indeed, was excellent.
A large jug, which Cornelius had skilfully broken, did
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