| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: is identical. We must except all those species, which habitually
or occasionally frequent elevated mountains; and certain
birds, which range as far south as the Strait of Magellan.
This fact is in perfect accordance with the geological
history of the Andes; for these mountains have existed as
a great barrier since the present races of animals have
appeared; and therefore, unless we suppose the same species
to have been created in two different places, we ought not to
expect any closer similarity between the organic beings on
the opposite sides of the Andes than on the opposite shores
of the ocean. In both cases, we must leave out of the question
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: approach the gang," shouted the sergeant as he came up.
But when he recognised Nekhludoff (every one in the prison knew
Nekhludoff) the sergeant raised his fingers to his cap, and,
stopping in front of Nekhludoff, said: "Not now; wait till we get
to the railway station; here it is not allowed. Don't lag behind;
march!" he shouted to the convicts, and putting on a brisk air,
he ran back to his place at a trot, in spite of the heat and the
elegant new boots on his feet.
Nekhludoff went on to the pavement and told the isvostchik to
follow him; himself walking, so as to keep the convicts in sight.
Wherever the gang passed it attracted attention mixed with horror
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: accelerate the great human movements; it has never created them. It may
even be questioned whether those very leaders, who have superficially
appeared to create and organise great and successful social movements, have
themselves, in most cases, perhaps in any, fully understood in all their
complexity the movements they themselves have appeared to rule. They have
been, rather, themselves permeated by the great common need; and being
possessed of more will, passion, intensity, or intellect, they have been
able to give voice to that which in others was dumb, and conscious
direction to that which in others was unconscious desire: they have been
but the foremost crest of a great wave of human necessity: they have not
themselves created the wave which bears themselves, and humanity, onwards.
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