| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: her worst enemy? He did not know, did he, that Gypsy Nan and the
White Moll were one! And so that telephone had been disconnected
- and to-night, now, just when she needed help at a crucial moment,
when she had counted upon the Adventurer to supply it, there was no
Adventurer, no means of reaching him, and no means any more of
knowing where he was!
Rhoda Gray walked on along the street, her lips tight, her face
drawn and hard. Failing the Adventurer, there remained - the police.
If she telephoned the police and sent them to the Pug's room, they
would of a certainty recover the money, and with equal certainty
restore it to its rightful owners. She had already thought of that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: incomplete phases of the problem,--the factor of reproduction. For in
all problems affecting the welfare of a biological species, and
particularly in all problems of human welfare, two fundamental forces
work against each other. There is hunger as the driving force of all
our economic, industrial and commercial organizations; and there is
the reproductive impulse in continual conflict with our economic,
political settlements, race adjustments and the like. Official
moralists, statesmen, politicians, philanthropists and economists
display an astounding disregard of this second disorganizing factor.
They treat the world of men as if it were purely a hunger world
instead of a hunger-sex world. Yet there is no phase of human
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: large a way as you; but he was better connected; and his shop was as
respectable as yours.
TARLETON. I suppose your mother brought him a little capital.
THE MAN. I dont know. Whats that got to do with you?
TARLETON. Well, you say she and I knew one another and parted. She
must have had something off me then, you know. One doesnt get out of
these things for nothing. Hang it, young man: do you suppose Ive no
heart? Of course she had her due; and she found a husband with it,
and set him up in business with it, and brought you up respectably; so
what the devil have you to complain of?
THE MAN. Are women to be ruined with impunity?
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