| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: science has not yet explained, that is all. Psychology is so young a science.
The subconscious mind has just been discovered, one might say. It is all
mystery as yet; the laws of it are yet to he formulated. This is simply
unexplained phenomena. But that is no reason that we should immediately
account for it by labelling it spiritism. As yet we do not know, that is all.
As for Planchette--"
He abruptly ceased, for at that moment, to enforce his remark, he had placed
his hand on Planchette, and at that moment his hand had been seized, as by a
paroxysm, and sent dashing, willy-nilly, across the paper, writing as the hand
of an angry person would write.
"No, I don't care for any more of it," Lute said, when the message was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri:
the _anthropological_ or individual factors of crime, the
_physical_ factors, and the _social_ factors.
The anthropological factors, inherent in the individual criminal,
are the first condition of crime; and they may be divided into
three sub-classes, according as we regard the criminal organically
physically, or socially.
_The organic constitution of the criminal_ comprises all anomalies
of the skull, the brain, the vital organs, the sensibility, and
the reflex activity, and all the bodily characteristics taken
together, such as the physiognomy, tattooing, and so on.
_The mental constitution of the criminal_ comprises anomalies of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: It was cruel, the way Martin had forced her to this, and as she
listened, for the next half hour, to the muffled sound of Billy's
crying and saw how impervious to it Martin was, she knew that
never again could things be the same between her husband and
herself.
But when, supper over, she found the corners of the rosebud mouth
still pathetically down and Billy's breath still quivering in
long gasps, she gathered the snuggly body to her and vowed in
little broken love-words that from now on his father should have
no further opportunities for discipline. Knowing him as she did,
she should have trained the baby in the first place to go to
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