| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: that I think I shall presently withdraw from amongst them, probably
within this week; and I cannot suppose you will regret my
departure.'
He paused. I did not answer.
'Probably,' he added, with a smile, 'your only regret on the
subject will be that I do not take all my companions along with me.
I flatter myself, at times, that though among them I am not of
them; but it is natural that you should be glad to get rid of me.
I may regret this, but I cannot blame you for it.'
'I shall not rejoice at your departure, for you can conduct
yourself like a gentleman,' said I, thinking it but right to make
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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: the same quantity of electricity is caused to pass through a series
of cells containing acidulated water, the electro-chemical action is
independent of the size of the electrodes.[3] He next proves that
variations in intensity do not interfere with this equality of
action. Whether his battery is charged with strong acid or with
weak; whether it consists of five pairs or of fifty pairs; in short,
whatever be its source, when the same current is sent through his
series of cells the same amount of decomposition takes place in all.
He next assures himself that the strength or weakness of his dilute
acid does not interfere with this law. Sending the same current
through a series of cells containing mixtures of sulphuric acid and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sudden break for liberty had attracted its attention; and after
Tippet it went, bowling over small trees, uprooting underbrush
and leaving a wake behind it like that of a small tornado.
Bradley, the moment he had discovered the thing was pursuing
Tippet, had followed it. He was afraid to fire for fear of
hitting the man, and so it was that he came upon them at the very
moment that the monster lunged its great weight forward upon the
doomed man. The sharp, three-toed talons of the forelimbs seized
poor Tippet, and Bradley saw the unfortunate fellow lifted high
above the ground as the creature again reared up on its hind
legs, immediately transferring Tippet's body to its gaping jaws,
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