| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the young; and it was interesting to hear him lay out his
projects for the future, when he should be returned to
Parliament, and place at the service of the nation his
experience of marine affairs. I asked him, if his notion of
piracy upon a private yacht were not original. But he told
me, no. 'A yacht, Miss Valdevia,' he observed, 'is a
chartered nuisance. Who smuggles? Who robs the salmon
rivers of the West of Scotland? Who cruelly beats the
keepers if they dare to intervene? The crews and the
proprietors of yachts. All I have done is to extend the line
a trifle, and if you ask me for my unbiassed opinion, I do
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: process takes place in this order, health commonly results; when in the
opposite order, disease. For when the flesh becomes decomposed and sends
back the wasting substance into the veins, then an over-supply of blood of
diverse kinds, mingling with air in the veins, having variegated colours
and bitter properties, as well as acid and saline qualities, contains all
sorts of bile and serum and phlegm. For all things go the wrong way, and
having become corrupted, first they taint the blood itself, and then
ceasing to give nourishment to the body they are carried along the veins in
all directions, no longer preserving the order of their natural courses,
but at war with themselves, because they receive no good from one another,
and are hostile to the abiding constitution of the body, which they corrupt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "Let the coal-heavers take to their fists!" she scornfully cried. "People
of our class can't descend--"
"Well, but," I interrupted, "then you give the coal-heavers the palm for
discrimination."
"How's that?"
"Why, perfectly! Your coal-heaver kills for some offenses, while for
lighter ones he--gets a bruise over the left eye."
"You don't meet it, you don't meet it! What is an insult ever but an
insult?"
"Oh, we in the North notice certain degrees--insolence, impudence,
impertinence, liberties, rudeness--all different."
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