| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: But he took Winterbourne's rebuke with docility. "I told the signorina it
was a grave indiscretion, but when was the signorina ever prudent?"
"I never was sick, and I don't mean to be!" the signorina declared.
"I don't look like much, but I'm healthy! I was bound to see the Colosseum
by moonlight; I shouldn't have wanted to go home without that;
and we have had the most beautiful time, haven't we, Mr. Giovanelli?
If there has been any danger, Eugenio can give me some pills.
He has got some splendid pills."
"I should advise you," said Winterbourne, "to drive home as fast
as possible and take one!"
"What you say is very wise," Giovanelli rejoined.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: less fierce for many years was the contest as to the origin and
maintenance of the power of the voltaic pile. Volta himself supposed
it to reside in the Contact of different metals. Here was exerted
his 'Electro-motive force,' which tore the combined electricities
asunder and drove them as currents in opposite directions.
To render the circulation of the current possible, it was necessary
to connect the metals by a moist conductor; for when any two metals
were connected by a third, their relation to each other was such
that a complete neutralisation of the electric motion was the result.
Volta's theory of metallic contact was so clear, so beautiful, and
apparently so complete, that the best intellects of Europe accepted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: when I was well sure he was wearied, I have risen by his side
and snapped my jaws in his face. When the bridge was finished he
went away. All the English hunt in that fashion, except when
they are hunted."
"Who hunts the white-faces?" yapped the Jackal excitedly.
"No one now, but I have hunted them in my time."
"I remember a little of that Hunting. I was young then," said
the Adjutant, clattering his beak significantly.
"I was well established here. My village was being builded for
the third time, as I remember, when my cousin, the Gavial,
brought me word of rich waters above Benares. At first I would
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