| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the lash. But if these things go on, we shall see, or our
sons shall see, what it is to have offended an inspector.
This for the unfortunate. But with the fortunate also, even
those whom the inspector loves, it may not be altogether
well. It is concluded that in such a state of society,
supposing it to be financially sound, the level of comfort
will be high. It does not follow: there are strange depths
of idleness in man, a too-easily-got sufficiency, as in the
case of the sago-eaters, often quenching the desire for all
besides; and it is possible that the men of the richest ant-
heaps may sink even into squalor. But suppose they do not;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: laws forbidding them would no longer come into
operation, and would do no harm to liberty. If, on
the other hand, the impulse to such actions persisted,
it would be necessary that steps should be taken to
restrain men from indulging it.
3. The third class of difficulties is much the most
serious and involves much the most drastic interference
with liberty. I do not see how a private army
could be tolerated within an Anarchist community,
and I do not see how it could be prevented except by
a general prohibition of carrying arms. If there
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: up to her very shoulders, her eyes staring and wide, an
expression of unutterable horror twisting her face.
"Oh-h-h!" she exclaimed in a long breath, her voice hardly
rising above a whisper. "Oh-h, isn't that horrible!"
Suddenly she turned and fled through the front part of the
house to the street door, that opened upon the little alley.
She looked wildly about her. Directly across the way a
butcher's boy was getting into his two-wheeled cart drawn up
in front of the opposite house, while near by a peddler of
wild game was coming down the street, a brace of ducks in
his hand.
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