| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: [19] So Zurborg. See Demosth. "in Mid." 570; Boeckh, "P. E. A." II.
xii. (p. 212, Eng. tr.) See Arnold's note to "Thuc." iii. 50, 7.
[20] Or, "diversation," "defalcation."
[21] Or, "as far as that goes, then, there is nothing apparently to
prevent the state from acquiring property in slaves, and
safeguarding the property so acquired."
But with reference to an opposite objection which may present itself
to the mind of some one: what guarantee is there that, along with the
increase in the supply of labourers, there will be a corrsponding
demand for their services on the part of contractors?[22] It may be
reassuring to note, first of all, that many of those who have already
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: an animal. My body was strong and well to work, but my brain was dead. If
you have not felt it, Lyndall, you cannot understand it. You may work, and
work, and work, till you are only a body, not a soul. Now, when I see one
of those evil-looking men that come from Europe--navvies, with the beast-
like, sunken face, different from any Kaffer's--I know what brought that
look into their eyes; and if I have only one inch of tobacco I give them
half. It is work, grinding, mechanical work, that they or their ancestors
have done, that has made them into beasts. You may work a man's body so
that his soul dies. Work is good. I have worked at the old farm from the
sun's rising till its setting, but I have had time to think, and time to
feel. You may work a man so that all but the animal in him is gone; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: should I decide to join him for a hunt.
That hunt was made, and during the weeks of its duration
something was said to explain a little more fully the Virginian's
difficulty at the Sunk Creek Ranch, and his reason for leaving
his excellent employer the Judge. Not much was said, to be sure;
the Virginian seldom spent many words upon his own troubles. But
it appeared that owing to some jealousy of him on the part of the
foreman, or the assistant foreman, he found himself continually
doing another man's work, but under circumstances so skilfully
arranged that he got neither credit nor pay for it. He would not
stoop to telling tales out of school. Therefore his ready and
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