| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: amiable sister of Apollo. A very pitted face!"
But the travelers, now so near the end, were incessantly
observing this new world. They imagined themselves walking
through its unknown countries, climbing its highest peaks,
descending into its lowest depths. Here and there they fancied
they saw vast seas, scarcely kept together under so rarefied an
atmosphere, and water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries.
Leaning over the abyss, they hoped to catch some sounds from
that orb forever mute in the solitude of space. That last day
left them.
They took down the most trifling details. A vague uneasiness
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: which I am acquainted, this is the only one in which no sort of
jealousy is felt at a further development of the industry.[4] I may go
a step farther; every proprietor of a farm will be able to tell you
exactly how many yoke of oxen are sufficient for the estate, and how
many farm hands. To send into the field more than the exact number
requisite every farmer would consider a dead loss.[5] But in silver
mining [operations] the universal complaint is the want of hands.
Indeed there is no analogy between this and other industries. With an
increase in the number of bronze-workers articles of bronze may become
so cheap that the bronze-worker has to retire from the field. And so
again with ironfounders. Or again, in a plethoric condition of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: character of touching simplicity. And as if it had been truly only
a meditation we conducted ourselves as though we had not heard it.
Mills began to speak of his experiences during his visit to the
army of the Legitimist King. And I discovered in his speeches that
this man of books could be graphic and picturesque. His admiration
for the devotion and bravery of the army was combined with the
greatest distaste for what he had seen of the way its great
qualities were misused. In the conduct of this great enterprise he
had seen a deplorable levity of outlook, a fatal lack of decision,
an absence of any reasoned plan.
He shook his head.
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