| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: have no real operation if they are not applied more or less
rigorously; for in the social strata which contribute most to
criminality the laws are known only by their practical
application, which is also the only truly defensive function,
carrying with it a special preventive of the repetition of the
crime by the person condemned.
Thus the arguments of jurists and legislators have not much value
for the criminal sociologist when they are based solely on the
psychological illusion that the dangerous classes trouble
themselves about the shaping of a penal code, as the more
instructed and less numerous classes might well do. The dangerous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 1: 23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe;
Deuteronomy 1: 24 and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
Deuteronomy 1: 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.'
Deuteronomy 1: 26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;
Deuteronomy 1: 27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Deuteronomy 1: 28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'
Deuteronomy 1: 29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deuteronomy 1: 30 The LORD your God who goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Deuteronomy 1: 31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.
Deuteronomy 1: 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: which I have been present; where we played at All-fours, Pope-
Joan, Tome-come-tickle-me, and other choice old games; and
where we sometimes had a good old English country dance to
the tune of Sir Roger de Coverley. Once a year, also, the
neighbors would gather together, and go on a gypsy party to
Epping Forest. It would have done any man's heart good to
see the merriment that took place here as we banqueted on the
grass under the trees. How we made the woods ring with
bursts of laughter at the songs of little Wagstaff and the merry
undertaker! After dinner, too, the young folks would play at
blind-man's-buff and hide-and-seek; and it was amusing to see
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