| 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: large, it is still a large enough section of humanity to compel
attention. 90,000 criminals represents a wreckage whose cost to the
community is very imperfectly estimated when we add up the cost of the
prisons, even if we add to them the whole cost of the police.
The police have so many other duties besides the shepherding of
criminals that it is unfair to saddle the latter with the whole of the
cost of the constabulary. The cost of prosecution and maintenance of
criminals, and the expense of the police involves an annual outlay of
#4,437,000. This, however, is small compared with the tax and toll
which this predatory horde inflicts upon the community on which it is
quartered. To the loss caused by the actual picking and stealing must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: array and overset; but those who played with him must be upon
their guard, for if his side, which was always that of the
English against the French, should chance to be defeated,
there would be trouble in Baxter's Place. For these opinions
he may almost be said to have suffered. Baptised and brought
up in the Church of Scotland, he had, upon some conscientious
scruple, joined the communion of the Baptists. Like other
Nonconformists, these were inclined to the Liberal side in
politics, and, at least in the beginning, regarded Buonaparte
as a deliverer. From the time of his joining the Spearmen,
Thomas Smith became in consequence a bugbear to his brethren
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have seen several Old Years out at Rectors, and in other
less fashionable places off Broadway, and in Vienna,
and Hamburg.
But the girl! She was magnificent. It was easy to see
that she considered herself as entirely above and apart from
her present surroundings and company. She talked with me,
and with Perry, and with the taciturn Ghak because we
were respectful; but she couldn't even see Hooja the
Sly One, much less hear him, and that made him furious.
He tried to get one of the Sagoths to move the girl up
ahead of him in the slave gang, but the fellow only poked
At the Earth's Core |
