| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: it had been driven by a rational being must also have
occurred to her.
Too, she bad seen me conversing with other men
upon the earth's surface. She had seen the arrival of
the caravan of books and arms, and ammunition, and
the balance of the heterogeneous collection which I
had crammed into the cabin of the iron mole for trans-
portation to Pellucidar.
She had seen all these evidences of a civilization
and brain-power transcending in scientific achieve-
ment anything that her race had produced; nor once
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: Columbia University; Physician to the Special Health Clinic.
Lenox Hill Hospital. New York: 1921.
[3] Cf Terman: Intelligence of School Children. New York 1919.
p. 56. Also, ``Is America Safe for Democracy?'' Six lectures
given at the Lowell Institute of Boston, by William McDougall,
Professor of Psychology in Harvard College. New York, 1921.
CHAPTER XI: Education and Expression
``Civilization is bound up with the success of that movement.
The man who rejoices in it and strives to further it is alive;
the man who shudders and raises impotent hands against it is
merely dead, even though the grave yet yawns for him in vain.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: He followed me in and gazed around. My intelligent double had vanished.
I played my part.
"Very convenient--isn't it?"
Very nice. Very comf . . ." He didn't finish and went out
brusquely as if to escape from some unrighteous wiles of mine.
But it was not to be. I had been too frightened not to feel vengeful;
I felt I had him on the run, and I meant to keep him on the run.
My polite insistence must have had something menacing in it,
because he gave in suddenly. And I did not let him off a single item;
mate's room, pantry, storerooms, the very sail locker which was
also under the poop--he had to look into them all. When at last I
The Secret Sharer |
