| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: tissues of the human body, the blood--though it contains iron--
included, were proved to be diamagnetic. So that if you could
suspend a man between the poles of a magnet, his extremities would
retreat from the poles until his length became equatorial.
Soon after he had commenced his researches on diamagnetism, Faraday
noticed a remarkable phenomenon which first crossed my own path in
the following way: In the year 1849, while working in the cabinet of
my friend, Professor Knoblauch, of Marburg, I suspended a small
copper coin between the poles of an electro-magnet. On exciting the
magnet, the coin moved towards the poles and then suddenly stopped,
as if it had struck against a cushion. On breaking the circuit, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: plumage. I heard strange music and the flare of barbaric
trumpetswhat?"
Amory had snickered.
"What, Amory?"
"I said go on, Beatrice."
"That was allit merely recurred and recurredgardens that flaunted
coloring against which this would be quite dull, moons that
whirled and swayed, paler than winter moons, more golden than
harvest moons"
"Are you quite well now, Beatrice?"
"Quite wellas well as I will ever be. I am not understood, Amory.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: during the winter. No wonder that with such an aristocracy, who had
renounced that very duty of governing the country, for which alone
they and their forefathers had existed, there arose government by
intendants and sub-delegates, and all the other evils of
administrative centralisation, which M. de Tocqueville anatomises
and deplores. But what was the cause of the curse? Their moral
degradation. What drew them up to Paris save vanity and profligacy?
What kept them from intermarrying with the middle class save pride?
What made them give up the office of governors save idleness? And
if vanity, profligacy, pride, and idleness be not injustices and
moral vices, what are?
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