| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: difference of the kind. His first attempt to establish differences
of diamagnetic action in different directions through bismuth, was
also a failure; but he must have felt this to be a point of cardinal
importance, for he returned to the subject in 1850, and proved that
bismuth was repelled with different degrees of force in different
directions. It seemed as if the crystal were compounded of two
diamagnetic bodies of different strengths, the substance being more
strongly repelled across the magne-crystallic axis than along it.
The same result was obtained independently, and extended to various
other bodies, magnetic as well as diamagnetic, and also to
compressed substances, a little subsequently by myself.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: the social and financial standard of the Maddens;
it was taken for granted that a mixed marriage was quite
out of the question in this case. She seemed to have
more business about the church than even the priest.
She was always playing the organ, or drilling the choir,
or decorating the altars with flowers, or looking over
the robes of the acolytes for rents and stains, or going
in or out of the pastorate. Clearly this was not the sort
of girl to take a Protestant husband.
The gossip of the town concerning her was, however,
exclusively Protestant. The Irish spoke of her,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: so he bowed solemnly in return.
During the night that followed upon the first engagement of the Turks
and Tatars, the boy lay awake trying to devise some plan to capture
the city. The walls seemed too high and thick to be either scaled or
broken by the Tatars, who had no artillery whatever; and within the
walls lay all the fertile part of the oasis, giving the besieged a
good supply of water and provisions, while the besiegers were obliged
to subsist on what water and food they had brought with them.
Just before dawn Rob left his tent and went out to look at the great
wall. The stars gave plenty of light, but the boy was worried to find
that, according to Eastern custom, no sentries or guards whatever had
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