| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: In the confusion and darkness of the present, it may well seem to some,
that woman, in her desire to seek for new paths of labour and employment,
is guided only by an irresponsible impulse; or that she seeks selfishly
only her own good, at the cost of that of the race, which she has so long
and faithfully borne onward. But, when a clearer future shall have arisen
and the obscuring mists of the present have been dissipated, may it not
then be clearly manifest that not for herself alone, but for her entire
race, has woman sought her new paths?
For let it be noted exactly what our position is, who today, as women, are
demanding new fields of labour and a reconstruction of our relationship
with life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: the dead carcase from the top of a rock, but could not with all
their force remove it from the place, but the monk drew it after him
with all imaginable ease and pushed it down. This story was
followed by another, of a young devil that became a religious of the
famous monastery of Aba Gatima. The good father would have favoured
me with more relations of the same kind, if I had been in the humour
to have heard them, but, interrupting him, I told him that all these
relations confirmed what we had found by experience, that the monks
of Abyssinia were no improper company for the devil.
Chapter IX
The viceroy is defeated and hanged. The author narrowly escapes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ISA 32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
shall be low in a low place.
ISA 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
ISA 33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when
thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt
make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with
thee.
ISA 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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