| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: to hear, who, though they were wild and rough themselves,
were humble, and glad to learn from every one. Therefore God
rewarded these Greeks, as He rewarded our forefathers, and
made them wiser than the people who taught them in everything
they learnt; for He loves to see men and children open-
hearted, and willing to be taught; and to him who uses what
he has got, He gives more and more day by day. So these
Greeks grew wise and powerful, and wrote poems which will
live till the world's end, which you must read for yourselves
some day, in English at least, if not in Greek. And they
learnt to carve statues, and build temples, which are still
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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: not for the society of women and other men with whom I have more in common,
I could not bear my life. When we first met as boy and girl, and fell in
love, we danced and rode together and seemed to have everything in common;
now we have nothing. I respect him and I believe he respects me, but that
is all!" It is, perhaps, only in close confidences between man and man and
woman and woman that this open sore, rising from the divergence in
training, habits of life, and occupation between men and women is spoken
of; but it lies as a tragic element at the core of millions of modern
conjugal relations, beneath the smooth superficial surface of our modern
life; breaking out to the surface only occasionally in the revelations of
our divorce courts.)
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: these precautions. Under the government of July, on the other hand, it
was I myself who I feared might endanger you. I had seen the
establishment of the new order of things with the deepest regret, and
not believing in its duration, I took part in certain active
hostilities against it, which brought me under the ban of the police."
Here the recollection that Jacques Bricheteau had been pointed out by
the waiter of the Cafe des Arts as a member of the police made me
smile, whereupon the speaker stopped and said with a very serious
air:--
"Do these explanations which I have the honor to give you seem
improbable?"
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