| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: the gray-headed elder by the window, were savages, neither more
nor less.
What will the American do with the negro? The South will not
consort with him. In some States miscegenation is a penal
offence. The North is every year less and less in need of his
services.
And he will not disappear. He will continue as a problem. His
friends will urge that he is as good as the white man. His
enemies--well, you can guess what his enemies will do from a
little incident that followed on a recent appointment by the
President. He made a negro an assistant in a post-office
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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: as it is that woman should not become practically dependent on her sexual
function alone, and should play at least as great a part in the productive
labour of the race in the future as she played in that of the past - what,
if woman cannot take the same vast share in the complex and largely mental
labour fields of the future, as in the largely physical fields of the past?
What, and if, in spite of all her effort and sacrifice to attain this end,
exactly now and when the labour of civilised societies becomes mental
rather than mechanical, woman be found wanting?"
In Swiss valleys today the traveller comes sometimes on the figure of a
solitary woman climbing the mountain-side, on her broad shoulders a mighty
burden of fodder or manure she is bearing up for the cattle, or to some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: and asked if any one had seen the Hart. The stable boys, who had
been resting after their dinner, looked round, but could see
nothing, and the Hunters went away. Shortly afterwards the master
came in, and looking round, saw that something unusual had taken
place. He pointed to the truss of hay and said: "What are those
two curious things sticking out of the hay?" And when the stable
boys came to look they discovered the Hart, and soon made an end
of him. He thus learnt that
Nothing escapes the master's eye.
The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
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