| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: the same sex than in those of opposite sexes; and even on the dissecting-
table the tissues of the male and female are often wholly
indistinguishable.
It is when we consider the reproductive organs themselves and their forms
of activity, and such parts of the organism modified directly in relation
to them, that a real and important difference is found to exist, radical
though absolutely complemental. It is exactly as we approach the
reproductive functions that the male and female bodies differ; exactly as
we recede from them that they become more and more similar, and even
absolutely identical. Taking the eye, perhaps the most highly developed,
complex organ in the body, and, if of an organ the term may be allowed, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can
neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither
build houses, (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they
can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing till they arrive
at six years old; except where they are of towardly parts,
although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier; during
which time they can however be properly looked upon only as
probationers: As I have been informed by a principal gentleman in
the county of Cavan, who protested to me, that he never knew
above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part
of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that
A Modest Proposal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "Those plantation boys of mine see ghosts too," said Renouard
grimly.
The sister of the philosopher sat up stiffly. What crudeness! It
was always so with this strange young man.
"Mr. Renouard! How can you compare the superstitious fancies of
your horrible savages with the manifestations . . . "
Words failed her. She broke off with a very faint primly angry
smile. She was perhaps the more offended with him because of that
flutter at the beginning of the conversation. And in a moment with
perfect tact and dignity she got up from her chair and left him
alone.
Within the Tides |
