| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: was full of hopes and hypotheses, but he always brought them to an
experimental test. The record of his planned and executed experiments
would, I doubt not, show a high ratio of hopes disappointed to hopes
fulfilled; but every case of fulfilment abolished all memory of
defeat; disappointment was swallowed up in victory.
After the description of the general character of this new force,
Faraday states with the emphasis here reproduced its mode of action:
'The law of action appears to be that the line or axis of
MAGNE-CRYSTALLIC force (being the resultant of the action of all the
molecules) tends to place itself parallel, or as a tangent, to the
magnetic curve, or line of magnetic force, passing through the place
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: house of his dreams. He lent to her something of Freya's soul.
Her deck was the foothold of their love. The possession of his
brig appeased his passion in a soothing certitude of happiness
already conquered.
The full moon was some way up, perfect and serene, floating in air
as calm and limpid as the glance of Freya's eyes. There was not a
sound in the brig.
"Here she shall stand, by my side, on evenings like this," he
thought, with rapture.
And it was at that moment, in this peace, in this serenity, under
the full, benign gaze of the moon propitious to lovers, on a sea
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: tinnierit evolare dicunt animam.
3. [28] Certum est, nummo in cistam tinniente augeri questum et
avariciam posse: suffragium autem ecclesie est in arbitrio dei
solius.
4. [29] Quis scit, si omnes anime in purgatorio velint redimi,
sicut de s. Severino et Paschali factum narratur.
5. [30] Nullus securus est de veritate sue contritionis,
multominus de consecutione plenarie remissionis.
6. [31] Quam rarus est vere penitens, tam rarus est vere
indulgentias redimens, i. e. rarissimus.
7. [32] Damnabuntur ineternum cum suis magistris, qui per literas
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