| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: door, which he softly sets wide open]. Oh Lor, what a draught!
Youd better shut it, dear.
[Vivie shuts it with a slam, and then, noting with disgust that
her mother's hat and shawl are lying about, takes them tidily to
the window seat, whilst Frank noiselessly shuts the cottage
door.]
FRANK [exulting] Aha! Got rid of em. Well, Vivvums: what do you
think of my governor?
VIVIE [preoccupied and serious] Ive hardly spoken to him. He
doesnt strike me as a particularly able person.
FRANK. Well, you know, the old man is not altogether such a fool
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: pass from our sons to ourselves; and therefore, I say that for my part, I
am quite willing to discourse with Socrates in his own manner; but you had
better ask our friend Laches what his feeling may be.
LACHES: I have but one feeling, Nicias, or (shall I say?) two feelings,
about discussions. Some would think that I am a lover, and to others I may
seem to be a hater of discourse; for when I hear a man discoursing of
virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his
theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words,
and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to
be the true musician, attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre, or
any pleasant instrument of music; for truly he has in his own life a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means
of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive
monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport
in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by
the
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