| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: adopted this institution from England. The jury was not
un known to the Republic of Athens and Rome, but it was
developed in the Middle Ages by the ``barbarians,'' as an
instrument which helped the people to escape from tyranny in the
administration of the law. It used to be said that the jury made
a reality of popular sovereignty, and substituted the common sense
and good will of the people for the cold dogmatism of the lawyers,
penetrated as they were by class prejudices. From this point of
view the jury was too much in accord with the general tendency of
the ideas of the day not to be greedily adopted. It was another
example of the close connection between philosophic ideas,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: could ascertain, no one was stirring. As he was strolling towards
the library, however, to see if there were any traces left of the
blood-stain, suddenly there leaped out on him from a dark corner
two figures, who waved their arms wildly above their heads, and
shrieked out 'BOO!' in his ear.
Seized with a panic, which, under the circumstances, was only
natural, he rushed for the staircase, but found Washington Otis
waiting for him there with the big garden-syringe; and being thus
hemmed in by his enemies on every side, and driven almost to bay,
he vanished into the great iron stove, which, fortunately for him,
was not lit, and had to make his way home through the flues and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: pointing out the phallic meaning of these stories, says "the
legends concerning the tree of golden apples or figs
which yields honey or ambrosia, guarded by dragons, in which
the life, the fortune, the glory, the strength and the
riches of the hero have their beginning, are numerous
among every people of Aryan origin: in India, Persia, Russia,
Poland, Sweden, Germany, Greece and Italy."
[1] See Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism, by Thomas
Inman (Trubner, 1874), p. 55.
[2] Zoological Mythology, vol. ii, pp. 410 sq.
Thus we see the natural-magic tendency of the human
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