| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: had a bag full of photographs of an actress all eyes
and teeth and hair,--and another chap had a scheme all
worked out for getting a concession from Spain for one
of the Caroline Islands, and putting up a factory there
for making porpoise-hide leather.
"Then there were three inventors--let's see, here they
are--one with a coiled wire spring for scissors inside
a pocket-knife, and one with a bottle, the whole top
of which unscrews instead of having a cork or stopper,
and one with an electrical fish-line, a fine wire inside
the silk, you know, which connects with some battery
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: measures to be taken against crime are of two kinds, preventive
and eliminative, 61--The fluctuations of crime chiefly produced by
social causes, 61--Steadiness of the graver forms of crime, 63--
Effect of judicial procedure on criminal statistics, 64--Crimes
against the person are high when crimes against property are low,
64--Is crime increasing or decreasing? 64--Official optimism in
criminal statistics, 67--Density of population and crime, 73--
Conditions on which the fluctuations of crime depend, 77--
Quetelet's law of the mechanical regularity of crime, 80--The
effect of environment on crime, 81--The effect of punishment on
crime, 82--The value of punishment is over-estimated, 82--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the usual size --sixty paces long--and separated along its whole
length by a barrier about five feet high. Upon the west side of
the course and about twenty paces distant from it, a scaffolding
had been built facing towards the east so as to avoid the glare
of the afternoon sun. In the centre was a raised dais, hung round
with cloth of blue embroidered with lions rampant. Upon the dais
stood a cushioned throne for the King, and upon the steps below,
ranged in the order of their dignity, were seats for the Earl,
his guests, the family, the ladies, knights, and gentlemen of the
castle. In front, the scaffolding was covered with the gayest
tapestries and brightest-colored hangings that the castle could
Men of Iron |
