| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tice of these rites through ages that has brought the race to
its present condition of imbecility.
"And yet, as I said, they are not without some redeeming
qualities. If legend may be credited, their forebears -- a little
handful of men and women who came from somewhere out
of the north and became lost in the wilderness of central Af-
rica -- found here only a barren desert valley. To my own
knowledge rain seldom, if ever, falls here, and yet you have
seen a great forest and luxuriant vegetation outside of the
city as well as within. This miracle is accomplished by the
utilization of natural springs which their ancestors developed,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: system; and over this finding the judges and the litigants should
have no other power than to call for explanations from the chief
of the experts.
In this way we should further avoid the scandal of judges entirely
ignorant of the elementary ideas of criminal biology, psychology,
and psycho-pathology, like the president of an assize court whom I
heard telling a jury that he was unable to say why an expert
``wanted to examine the feet of a prisoner in order to come to a
decision about his head.'' This president, who was an
excellent magistrate and a learned jurist was wholly unacquainted
with the elements of the theory of degeneracy, like one of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Sea-colored lapis lazuli,
Sardonyx and chalcedony,
Enkindling diamond, candid gold,
Red rubies and red garnets bold:
And all their humors should be blent
In one intolerable blaze,
Barbaric, fierce, and opulent,
To dazzle him that dared to gaze!
Alack-a-day for poverty:
My rhymes are all you get of me!
Yet, if your heart receive, behold!
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