| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: the birth rate among the working classes takes a sharp decline, the
value of children will rise. Then only will the infant mortality rate
decline, and child labor vanish.
Investigations of child labor emphasize its evils by pointing out that
these children are kept out of school, and that they miss the
advantages of American public school education. They express the
current confidence in compulsory education and the magical benefits to
be derived from the public school. But we need to qualify our faith
in education, and particularly our faith in the American public
school. Educators are just beginning to wake up to the dangers
inherent in the attempt to teach the brightest child and the mentally
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: cross barred with iron.
If she could but get the old woman out, thought
Bertrade, she could barricade herself within and thus
delay, at least, her impending fate in the hope that suc-
cor might come from some source. But her most subtle
wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a mo-
ment, of her harpy jailer; and now that the final sum-
mons had come she was beside herself for a lack of
means to thwart her captor.
Her dagger had been taken from her, but one hung
from the girdle of the old woman and this Bertrade
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Puffs forth another wind that fires the torch:
And being lighted, by the light he spies
Lucretia's glove, wherein her needle sticks;
He takes it from the rushes where it lies,
And griping it, the neeld his finger pricks:
As who should say this glove to wanton tricks
Is not inur'd: return again in haste;
Thou see'st our mistress' ornaments are chaste.
But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
He in the worst sense construes their denial:
The doors, the wind, the glove that did delay him,
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