| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: against that crime of crimes,--making man the prop-
erty of his fellow-man! O, how accursed is that
system, which entombs the godlike mind of man,
defaces the divine image, reduces those who by crea-
tion were crowned with glory and honor to a level
with four-footed beasts, and exalts the dealer in hu-
man flesh above all that is called God! Why should
its existence be prolonged one hour? Is it not evil,
only evil, and that continually? What does its pres-
ence imply but the absence of all fear of God, all
regard for man, on the part of the people of the
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: hybrids, which have their reproductive systems imperfect, and which have
had this system and their whole organisation disturbed by being compounded
of two distinct species, seems closely allied to that sterility which so
frequently affects pure species, when their natural conditions of life have
been disturbed. This view is supported by a parallelism of another
kind;--namely, that the crossing of forms only slightly different is
favourable to the vigour and fertility of their offspring; and that slight
changes in the conditions of life are apparently favourable to the vigour
and fertility of all organic beings. It is not surprising that the degree
of difficulty in uniting two species, and the degree of sterility of their
hybrid-offspring should generally correspond, though due to distinct
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: border-women want are houses and children. They must bring up men, men to
drive the redskins back, men to till the soil, or else what is the good of our
suffering here."
"You are right," said Wetzel thoughtfully. "But I'd hate to see a flower like
Betty Zane in a rude hunter's cabin."
"I have known the Zanes for forty year' and I never saw one yet that was
afraid of work. And you might win her if you would give up running mad after
Indians. I'll allow no woman would put up with that. You have killed many
Indians. You ought to be satisfied."
"Fightin' redskins is somethin' I can't help," said the hunter, slowly shaking
his head. "If I got married the fever would come on and I'd leave home. No,
Betty Zane |
