| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: courts and correctional tribunals, taking an average of the years
1877-81, which is not sensibly affected by the results of
succeeding years.
It will be seen that the average of relapses for crimes against
the person is higher than the average for the most serious cases
of murderous and indecent assault, which are clearly an outcome of
the most anti-social tendencies (such as parricide, murder, rape,
inflicting bodily harm on parents, &c.). Thus homicide and fatal
wounding, though relapse is very frequent in these cases, still
display a less abnormal and more occasional character by their
lower position in the table, as shown in the cases of infanticide,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: and Lincoln accepted gladly. Of course he knew almost nothing
about surveying, but he got a compass and chain, and, as he tells
us, "studied Flint and Gibson a little, and went at it." The
surveyor, who was a man of talent and education, not only gave
Lincoln the appointment, but, it is said, lent him the book in
which to study the art. Lincoln carried the book to his friend
Mentor Graham, and "went at it" to such purpose that in six weeks
he was ready to begin the practice of his new profession. Like
Washington, who, it will be remembered, followed the same calling
in his youth, he became an excellent surveyor.
Lincoln's store had by this time "winked out," to use his own
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: I always say it's very good of people to send their things here at
all. And some of them are not half bad--I should call this year's
average very high indeed.'
'Are you pleased with the picture that has taken your prize, Sir
William?' asked Dora.
'I have bought it.' Sir William's chest underwent before our eyes
an expansion of conscious virtue. Living is so expensive in Simla;
the purchase of a merely decorative object takes almost the
proportion of an act of religion, even by a Member of Council
drawing four hundred pounds a month.
'First-rate it is, first-rate. Have you seen it? "Our Camp in
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