| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: country. Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the
treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.
Look down upon ourselves and upon our absent dear ones. Help us
and them; prolong our days in peace and honour. Give us health,
food, bright weather, and light hearts. In what we meditate of
evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavours.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
For his sake, in whose words we now conclude.
IN TIME OF RAIN
WE thank Thee, Lord, for the glory of the late days and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: mechanical _lex loquens_. The living and human tests of every
criminal sentence reside in the conditions of the act, the
author, and reacting society, far more than in the written law.
Herein we have an opportunity of solving the old question of the
authority of the judge, wherein we have gone from one excess to
another, from the unbounded authority of the Middle Ages to the
Baconian aphorism respecting the law and the judge, according to
which the law is excellent when it leaves least to the judge, and
the judge is excellent when he leaves himself the least
independent judgment.
If the function of the criminal judge were always to be, as it is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: approach of the gentleman who was this time with Cissy, and who, as
seen from within the cage, became on the spot the happiest of the
happy circumstances with which her mind had invested the friend of
Fritz and Gussy. He was a very happy circumstance indeed as, with
his cigarette in his lips and his broken familiar talk caught by
his companion, he put down the half-dozen telegrams it would take
them together several minutes to dispatch. And here it occurred,
oddly enough, that if, shortly before the girl's interest in his
companion had sharpened her sense for the messages then
transmitted, her immediate vision of himself had the effect, while
she counted his seventy words, of preventing intelligibility. His
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