| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: "'From what part of the world have you come?' As if these vast
and fertile regions would naturally be the place of meeting and
common country of all the inhabitants of the globe."
To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex
Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.
Sir Francis Head, an English traveler and a Governor-General of
Canada, tells us that "in both the northern and southern
hemispheres of the New World, Nature has not only outlined her
works on a larger scale, but has painted the whole picture with
brighter and more costly colors than she used in delineating and
in beautifying the Old World.... The heavens of America appear
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: disorder, crushing the souls of its victims, poisoning their
hearts and bodies. He showed her a world at odds and ends, in
which it was accepted as the natural thing that some should starve
while others were waited upon by servants.
He made her see how the tendency of environment is to reduce all
things to a question of selfinterest, and how the great triumphant
fact of life is that love and kindness persist. Her interest was
insatiable. She poured questions upon him, made him tell her
stories of the things he had seen in that strange underworld that
was farther from her than Asia. So she learned of Oscar Marchant,
coughing all day over the shoes he half-soled and going out at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: perturbation to Loraine Lisznayi. Did she know where Mr.
Vanderlip had gone? He had agreed to supply that gentleman with a
big string of dogs by a certain time; but that shameless one, the
German trader Meyers, had been buying up the brutes and skimped
the market. It was very necessary he should see Mr. Vanderlip,
because of the shameless one he would be all of a week behindhand
in filling the contract. She did know where he had gone? Up-
creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once and inform
him of the unhappy delay. Did he understand her to say that Mr.
Vanderlip needed the dogs on Friday night? that he must have them
by that time? It was too bad, but it was the fault of the
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