| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: above their proper station in life? In the days of my ancestors no
birds ever thought of having wings, and did very well without; and
now they all laugh at me because I keep to the good old fashion.
Why, the very marrocks and dovekies have got wings, the vulgar
creatures, and poor little ones enough they are; and my own cousins
too, the razor-bills, who are gentlefolk born, and ought to know
better than to ape their inferiors."
And so she was running on, while Tom tried to get in a word
edgeways; and at last he did, when the old lady got out of breath,
and began fanning herself again; and then he asked if she knew the
way to Shiny Wall.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: So the next day Selim the Fisherman fished and fished and fished
and fished, and still he caught no more than the day before;
until just at sunset he cast his net for the last time for the
day, and, lo and behold! There was something heavy in it. So he
dragged it ashore, and what should it be but a leaden box, sealed
as tight as wax, and covered with all manner of strange letters
and figures. "Here," said he, "is something to pay for my bread
of yesterday, at any rate"; and as he was an honest man, off he
marched with it to Selim the Baker.
They opened the box in the baker's shop, and within they found
two rolls of yellow linen. In each of the rolls of linen was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: the women of their race, twenty thousand human creatures to be borne within
them for months, given birth to in anguish, fed from their breasts and
reared with toil, if the numbers of the tribe and the strength of the
nation are to be maintained. In nations continually at war, incessant and
unbroken child-bearing is by war imposed on all women if the state is to
survive; and whenever war occurs, if numbers are to be maintained, there
must be an increased child-bearing and rearing. This throws upon woman as
woman a war tax, compared with which all that the male expends in military
preparations is comparatively light.
The relations of the female towards the production of human life influences
undoubtedly even her relation towards animal and all life. "It is a fine
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