| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: period in which thousands of workers[3] have been employed within the
mines no hand was ever stopped for want of work to do. Rather, at any
given moment, the work to be done was more than enough for the hands
employed. And so it is to-day with the owners of slaves working in the
mines; no one dreams of reducing the number of his hands. On the
contrary, the object is perpetually to acquire as many additional
hands as the owner possibly can. The fact is that with few hands to
dig and search, the find of treasure will be small, but with an
increase in labour the discovery of the ore itself is more than
proportionally increased. So much so, that of all operations with
which I am acquainted, this is the only one in which no sort of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: The little church of Long Ago was not a structure huge,
It had no hired singers or no other subterfuge
To get the people to attend, 'twas just a simple place
Where every Sunday we were told about God's saving grace;
No men of wealth were gathered there to help it with a gift;
The only worldly thing it had--a mortgage hard to lift.
And somehow, dreaming here to-day, I wish that I could know
The joy of once more sitting in that church of Long Ago.
Sue's Got a Baby
Sue's got a baby now, an' she
Is like her mother used to be;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: domain of war, have our word to say, a word no man can say for us. It is
our intention to enter into the domain of war and to labour there till in
the course of generations we have extinguished it.
If today we claim all labour for our province, yet more especially do we
claim those fields in which the difference in the reproductive function
between man and woman may place male and female at a slightly different
angle with regard to certain phases of human life.
Chapter V. Sex Differences.
If we examine the physical phenomenon of sex as it manifests itself in the
human creature, we find, in the first stages of the individual's existence,
no difference discernible, by any means we have at present at our command,
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