| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: to undergo the examination of ANY WHITE person,
(let him be ever so drunk or crazy), it shall be
lawful for such white person to pursue, apprehend,
and moderately correct such slave; and if such
slave shall assault and strike such white person,
such slave may be LAWFULLY KILLED."--2 Brevard's
Digest, 231.
"Provided always," says the law, "that such
striking be not done by the command and in the
defence of the person or property of the owner, or
other person having the government of such slave;
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: would walk around saying they had always said so. I could not
hold up my head again among enemies or friends."
"When it was explained--"
"There'd be nothing to explain. There'd just be the fact." He was
nearly angry.
"There is a higher courage than fear of outside opinion," said
the New England girl.
Her Southern lover looked at her. "Cert'nly there is. That's what
I'm showing in going against yours.
"But if you know that you are brave, and if I know that you are
brave, oh, my dear, my dear! what difference does the world make?
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: cases. We should be far from considering that we have full data
on all of our cases and yet this stands out most strongly. We
have had positive reports from relatives or from the individual
showing this certainly to be a factor in 7 out of the 19 cases.
This is a very large finding, when it is considered that the data
are frequently unobtainable. Of course we are not speaking here
of masturbation per se, but only of the fact of its ascertained
relationship to the pathological lying. This is only part of the
whole matter of sex experience which, we find upon gathering our
material together, plays such an enormous role.
Age of Onset. It is very easy to see that the tendency to
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