| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: intellectual aptitudes. Yet even with regard to these differences, it is
almost impossible to determine scientifically in how far they are the
result of national traditions, environment, and education, and in how far
the result of real differences in organic conformation. (In thinking of
physical sex differences, the civilised man of modern times has always to
guard himself against being unconsciously misled by the very exaggerated
external sex differences which our unnatural method of sex clothing and
dressing the hair produces. The unclothed and natural human male and
female bodies are not more divided from each other than those of the lion
and lioness. Our remote Saxon ancestors, with their great, almost naked,
white bodies and flowing hair worn long by both sexes, were but little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: rovers, if you love me! Talking of which puts me in mind that you
may be short of partners at the Assembly - oh, I have been young
myself! - and if ye care to come to anything so portentiously
tedious as a tea-party at the house of a bachelor lawyer,
consisting mainly of his nieces and nephews, and his grand-nieces
and grand-nephews, and his wards, and generally the whole clan of
the descendants of his clients, you might drop in to-night towards
seven o'clock. I think I can show you one or two that are worth
looking at, and you can dance with them later on at the Assembly.'
He proceeded to give me a sketch of one or two eligible young
ladies' whom I might expect to meet. 'And then there's my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, Brevet, and Chenildieu.
"Do you not recognize me?" said he.
All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head
that they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated,
made a military salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury
and the court, and said in a gentle voice:--
"Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released!
Mr. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are
in search of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean."
Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been
followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall
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