| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: seen anywhere, in those tracts in which the prettiest stories,
with the prettiest binding and pictures, on the most secular--
even, sometimes, scientific--of subjects, end by a few words of
pious exhortation, inserted by a different hand from that which
indites the "carnal" mass of the book. They did not invent the
science, or the art of story-telling, or the woodcutting, or the
plan of getting books up prettily--or, indeed, the notion of
instructing the masses at all; but finding these things in the
hands of "the world," they have "spoiled the Egyptians," and fancy
themselves beating Satan with his own weapons.
If, indeed, these men claimed boldly all printing, all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: or physically, that by inheritance and education the males of the next tend
to be: there can be no movement or change in one sex which will not
instantly have its co-ordinating effect upon the other; the males of
tomorrow are being cast in the mould of the women of today. If new ideals,
new moral conceptions, new methods of action are found permeating the minds
of the women of one generation, they will reappear in the ideals, moral
conceptions, methods of action of the men of thirty years hence; and the
idea that the males of a society can ever become permanently farther
removed from its females than the individual man is from the mother who
bore and reared him, is at variance with every law of human inheritance.
If, further, we turn from an abstract consideration of this supposition,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "But you will, as soon as the sanatorium succeeds!" she put
in bravely. She put down her muff. "Don't tell him to-night,
anyhow. Maybe Pat will think of some way to break it to him.
She can do a lot with father."
"I hope she can think of some way to break another Richard Carter
to the people in the house," I said tartly.
"Another Richard Carter!" they said together, and then I told
them about how we had waited and got desperate, and how we'd
brought in Mr. Pierce at the last minute and that he was asleep
now at the house. They roared. To save my life I couldn't see
that it was funny. But when I came to the part about Thoburn
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