| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: the limitations of current methods. It is economic, biological,
psychological and spiritual in its aspects. It awakens the vision of
mankind moving and changing, of humanity growing and developing,
coming to fruition, of a race creative, flowering into beautiful
expression through talent and genius.
As a social programme, Birth Control is not merely concerned with
population questions. In this respect, it is a distinct step in
advance of earlier Malthusian doctrines, which concerned themselves
chiefly with economics and population. Birth Control concerns itself
with the spirit no less than the body. It looks for the liberation of
the spirit of woman and through woman of the child. To-day motherhood
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: They beached their galley on the shore, and sought
The toll-gate of the city hastily,
And in the market showed their brown and pictured pottery.
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But some good Triton-god had ruth, and bare
The boy's drowned body back to Grecian land,
And mermaids combed his dank and dripping hair
And smoothed his brow, and loosed his clenching hand;
Some brought sweet spices from far Araby,
And others bade the halcyon sing her softest lullaby.
And when he neared his old Athenian home,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Coombs knew Monty was a liar; but she was so fascinated by the
glittering, basilisk eyes he riveted upon her, so taken in by his
horrible tales of blood, that despite her knowledge she could not
help believing them.
Manifestly Monty was very proud of his suddenly acquired gift.
Formerly he had hardly been known to open his lips in the
presence of strangers. Monty had developed more than one
singular and hitherto unknown trait since his supremacy at golf
had revealed his possibilities. He was as sober and vain and
pompous about his capacity for lying as about anything else.
Some of the cowboys were jealous of him because he held the
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