| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: fortnight ending August 2nd, forty-two were country people; twenty-six
men who had been in London for various periods; ranging from six months
to four years; nine were lads under eighteen, who had run away from
home and come up to town; while four were ex-military. Of eighty-five
cases of dossers who were spoken to at night when they slept in the
streets, sixty-three were country people. A very small proportion of
the genuine homeless Out-of-Works are Londoners bred and born.
There is another element in the matter, the existence of which will be
news to most people, and that is the large proportion of ex-military
men who are among the helpless, hopeless destitute. Mr. Arnold White,
after spending many months in the streets of London interrogating more
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: approval, seal, and signature, no local magistracy should allow any
play to be acted. In that case actors would take care to send their
plays to the capital, and could act them in safety, and those who
write them would be more careful and take more pains with their
work, standing in awe of having to submit it to the strict examination
of one who understood the matter; and so good plays would be
produced and the objects they aim at happily attained; as well the
amusement of the people, as the credit of the wits of Spain, the
interest and safety of the actors, and the saving of trouble in
inflicting punishment on them. And if the same or some other person
were authorised to examine the newly written books of chivalry, no
Don Quixote |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: seriously to weaken for one moment the master dominance of this emotion;
that the lowest and most brutal ignorance, and the highest intellectual
culture leave mankind, equally, though in different forms, amenable to its
mastery; that, whether in the brutal guffaw of sex laughter which rings
across the drinking bars of our modern cities, and rises from the
comfortable armchairs in fashionable clubs; or in the poet's dreams, and
the noblest conjugal relations of men and women linked together for life,
it plays still today on earth the vast part it played when hoary monsters
ploughed after each other through Silurian slime, and that still it forms
as ever the warp on which in the loom of human life the web is woven, and
runs as a thread never absent through every design and pattern which
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