| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: into action simultaneously--in the first place, the amelioration
of the social conditions, as a natural preventive of crime, in the
nature of a substitute for punishment; and, secondly, measures of
perpetual or temporary elimination of criminals, according as the
influence of biological conditions in the evolution of crime is
all but absolute, or more or less great, and more or less curable.
As a matter of fact, when we follow the periodic variations of
crime, with its measured growth and decrease, we cannot fail to
conclude that these constant and constantly occurring variations
depend upon a corresponding variation of anthropological and
physical factors. For, whilst criminal statistics are far from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all."
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: recognize that old Anglo-Norman teachableness and wide-heartedness,
which has enabled us to profit by the wisdom and civilization of
all ages and of all lands, without prejudice to our own distinctive
national character.
And so I go to my story, which, if any one dislikes, he has but to
turn the leaf till he finds pasturage which suits him better.
Amyas could not sail the next day, or the day after; for the
southwester freshened, and blew three parts of a gale dead into the
bay. So having got the "Mary Grenville" down the river into
Appledore pool, ready to start with the first shift of wind, he
went quietly home; and when his mother started on a pillion behind
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