| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: been permitted? to grant to species the special power of producing hybrids,
and then to stop their further propagation by different degrees of
sterility, not strictly related to the facility of the first union between
their parents, seems to be a strange arrangement.
The foregoing rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to me clearly to
indicate that the sterility both of first crosses and of hybrids is simply
incidental or dependent on unknown differences, chiefly in the reproductive
systems, of the species which are crossed. The differences being of so
peculiar and limited a nature, that, in reciprocal crosses between two
species the male sexual element of the one will often freely act on the
female sexual element of the other, but not in a reversed direction. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: They are gods; and in wits a man may surpass his fellow men;
But that a mortal seer knows more than I know--where
Hath this been proven? Or how without sign assured, can I blame
Him who saved our State when the winged songstress came,
Tested and tried in the light of us all, like gold assayed?
How can I now assent when a crime is on Oedipus laid?
CREON
Friends, countrymen, I learn King Oedipus
Hath laid against me a most grievous charge,
And come to you protesting. If he deems
That I have harmed or injured him in aught
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: progress, human existence; who have been practised in the
processes of thought; and who, from study, have formed definite
opinions, differing doubtless in infinite variety, but still all
founded upon facts, by something like fair and scientific
induction.
Till we have this class of men fairly represented in the House of
Commons, there is little hope for Sanitary Reform: when it is so
represented, we shall have no reason to talk of Representative
institutions being on their trial.
And it is one of the few hopeful features of the present time,
that an attempt is at last being made to secure for educated men
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