| 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: it, for those who have by their liberality maintained men and women in
idleness to cease doing so. And when it comes to this pass, that a man
cannot eat without working, of the two evils he will choose the latter,
preferring labour, however unpleasant it may be to his tastes, to
actual starvation.
It must be borne in mind that the penalty of certain expulsion, which
all would be given to understand would be strictly enforced would have
a good influence in inducing the idlest to give work a fair trial,
and once at it should not despair of conquering the aversion
altogether, and eventually being able to transform and pass these once
lazy loafers as real industrious members of Society.
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: City of Refuge. I am he who shall bear witness, and this is one
of my houris."
"Thou liest!" answered the female, interrupting her companion,
in tones yet shriller than his own; "I am none of thy houris, and
thou art no such infidel trash as the Mohammed of whom thou
speakest. May my curse rest upon his coffin! I tell thee, thou
ass of Issachar, thou art King Arthur of Britain, whom the
fairies stole away from the field of Avalon; and I am Dame
Guenevra, famed for her beauty."
"But in truth, noble sir," said the male, "we are distressed
princes, dwelling under the wing of King Guy of Jerusalem, until
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: much distance as possible behind us; so we waded, jumped, and
clambered down that rocky riverbed, in the flickering black and
white moonlight and leaf shadow, till growing daylight forced a halt.
We found a friendly nut-tree, those large, satisfying, soft-
shelled nuts we already knew so well, and filled our pockets.
I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets
in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments,
and the middle one in particular was shingled with them. So we stocked
up with nuts till we bulged like Prussian privates in marching order,
drank all we could hold, and retired for the day.
It was not a very comfortable place, not at all easy to get at,
Herland |
