| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: to discover some panacea for their own consciences in what Voss
calls, "A multitude of symbols, which are ever increasing the
farther you penetrate, and are made to have a moral application
through some arbitrary twisting of their meaning, as if I were to
attempt expounding the chaos on my writing-desk."
A rich harvest-field was an aristocracy in such a humour, for quacks
of every kind; richer even than that of France, in that the Germans
were at once more honest and more earnest, and therefore to be
robbed more easily. The carcass was there: and the birds of prey
were gathered together.
Of Rosa, with his lodge of the Three Hammers, and his Potsdam gold-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: way in which their words came.
"You're all right?" he went on. "You're happy?"
"Yes, very," she said. Her eyes were downcast.
He did not believe her, the effort in her voice, her drawn, white
face belied her words. How COULD he get the truth from her?
"Jim said you might not want to see me."
She started.
"Has Jim been talking to you?"
"Yes, but I didn't let him stop me, for you told me the day you
left that you'd never change-- toward me. Have you, Poll?" He
studied her, anxiously.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: To these reforms, which guarantee the scientific capacity of the
criminal judge, we must add reforms which would secure his
complete independence of the executive authority, which is
now the only authority responsible for the advancement and
allocation of judges. But this independence would not be exempt
from every kind of control, such as public opinion, and
disciplinary authority to some extent distinct from the
_personnel_ of the bench; for otherwise the judicial authority
would soon become another form of insupportable tyranny.
The most effectual mode of securing the independence of the judges
is to improve their position in life. For admitting that a fixed
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