| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: multiply. Imperial Germany was the outstanding and awful example of
this attitude. Before the war the fall in the birth-rate was viewed by
the Junker party with the gravest misgivings. Bernhardi and the
protagonists of DEUTSCHLAND-UBER-ALLES condemned it in the strongest
terms. The Marxians unconsciously repeat the words of the government
representative, Krohne, who, in a debate on the subject in the
Prussian Diet, February 1916, asserted: ``Unfortunately this view has
gained followers amongst the German women....These women, in refusing
to rear strong and able children to continue the race, drag into the
dust that which is the highest end of women--motherhood. It is to be
hoped that the willingness to bear sacrifices will lead to a change
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: they do things, write able articles, stitch shoes, dig, from the
purely simian impulse. Go and reason with monkeys!
No, I am right about Jean Lillie. Jean Lillie, our double great-
grandmother, the daughter of David Lillie, sometime Deacon of the
Wrights, married, first, Alan Stevenson, who died May 26, 1774, 'at
Santt Kittes of a fiver,' by whom she had Robert Stevenson, born
8th June 1772; and, second, in May or June 1787, Thomas Smith, a
widower, and already the father of our grandmother. This
improbable double connection always tends to confuse a student of
the family, Thomas Smith being doubly our great-grandfather.
I looked on the perpetuation of our honoured name with veneration.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: you want to have a flat footed, heavy breathing man with sandy
whiskers, five kids and a building and loan mortgage ready as an
understudy to take her desk. Now there was that widow lady that me and
Andy Tucker engaged to help us in that little matrimonial agency
scheme we floated out in Cairo.
"When you've got enough advertising capital--say a roll as big as the
little end of a wagon tongue--there's money in matrimonial agencies.
We had about $6,000 and we expected to double it in two months, which
is about as long as a scheme like ours can be carried on without
taking out a New Jersey charter.
"We fixed up an advertisement that read about like this:
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