| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: When he approached closer to one of these tablets he saw
that it was of gold, and bore many hieroglyphics. Beyond this
first chamber there were others, and back of them the building
branched out into enormous wings. Tarzan passed through
several of these chambers, finding many evidences of the
fabulous wealth of the original builders. In one room were
seven pillars of solid gold, and in another the floor itself
was of the precious metal. And all the while that he explored,
his blacks huddled close together at his back, and
strange shapes hovered upon either hand and before them
and behind, yet never close enough that any might say that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: she glanced at the great blisters on Katy's hands.
"I have been trying to make her give up the idea, but she has
more courage than I ever gave her credit for," remarked Mrs.
Redburn.
"It's a shame for you to hurt your hands in this manner; but I
dare say that they will soon get hard, like mine, with the
labor," replied Mrs. Howard, as she threw off her hood and rolled
up her sleeves. "Here, child, let me help you."
"You are very kind, ma'am; and I hope I shall be able to do
something for you some time."
"Never you mind that; you are a nice girl, and it does my heart
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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: of paramount interest of the race. It is this fact which causes even
prostitution (in many other respects the most repulsive of all the forms of
female parasitism which afflicts humanity) to be, probably, not more
adverse to the advance and even to the conservation of a healthy and
powerful society, than the parasitism of its child-bearing women. For the
prostitute, heavily as she weights society for her support, returning
disease and mental and emotional disintegration for what she consumes, does
not yet so immediately affect the next generation as the kept wife, or kept
mistress, who impresses her effete image indelibly on the generations
succeeding. (It cannot be too often repeated that the woman who merely
bears and brings a child into the world, and then leaves it to be fed and
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