| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: At this the doctor returned, leading our two horses; and when
we were all in the saddle, he bade me ride on before, as he
had matter to discuss with Mrs. Fonblanque. They came at a
foot's pace, eagerly conversing in a whisper; and presently
after the moon rose and showed them looking eagerly in each
other's faces as they went, my mother laying her hand upon
the doctor's arm, and the doctor himself, against his usual
custom, making vigorous gestures of protest or asseveration.
At the foot of the track which ascended the talus of the
mountain to his door, the doctor overtook me at a trot.
'Here,' he said, 'we shall dismount; and as your mother
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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: of reasons for the sentence, the almost total abolition of
punishments which cannot be reconsidered, appeals, reversals,
revision, which would be still more efficacious under the positive
system which we propose.
One logical consequence of the psychological objection raised
against judges would be the granting of a jury even in the
Correctional Tribunals, though the experience which we have of it
in the Assize Courts is not so encouraging as to leave many
advocates of a jury in the minor courts.
But a decisive objection, founded on the most positive data of
sociology, can be raised against the jury.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: garden ground; the small-paned high windows in the peaks of their
steep gables were like knowing eyes that watched the harbor and the
far sea-line beyond, or looked northward all along the shore and
its background of spruces and balsam firs. When one really knows
a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming
acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love at
first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the
growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
After a first brief visit made two or three summers before in
the course of a yachting cruise, a lover of Dunnet Landing returned
to find the unchanged shores of the pointed firs, the same
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