| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: seem to be loaned by another. I want you to lend this money on
mortgage."
"What for?" asked Heinzman.
"For a one tenth of Orde's share in case he does not meet those
notes."
"But he vill meet the notes," objected Heinzman. "You are a
prosperous concern. I know somethings of YOUR business, also."
"He thinks he will," rejoined Newmark grimly. "I will merely point
out to you that his entire income is from the firm, and that from
this income he must save twenty-odd thousand a year.
"If the firm has hard luck--" said Heinzman.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: And when she hesitated:
"It makes you sleep, you know. I'm going, if I have to ride alone
and talk to an imaginary lady beside me."
She rather imagined that that had been his first idea,
modified by his thought of her. She went over and put a wrinkled
hand on his arm.
"You look happy, Dick," she said wistfully.
"I am happy, Aunt Lucy," he replied, and bending over, kissed her.
On Wednesday he was in a state of alternating high spirits and
periods of silence. Even Minnie noticed it.
"Mr. Dick's that queer I hardly know how to take him." she said to
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: become responsible and self-reliant in your own lives.''
The brunt of this injustice falls on women, because the old
traditional morality is the invention of men. ``No religion, no
physical or moral code,'' wrote the clear-sighted George Drysdale,
``proposed by one sex for the other, can be really suitable. Each
must work out its laws for itself in every department of life.'' In
the moral code developed by the Church, women have been so degraded
that they have been habituated to look upon themselves through the
eyes of men. Very imperfectly have women developed their own self-
consciousness, the realization of their tremendous and supreme
position in civilization. Women can develop this power only in one
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