| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: sphere, by economic, political, administrative and civil
conditions of laws, far more than by the penal code.
Nevertheless the execution of punishment, though it is the less
important part of the function of social defence, which should be
carried out in harmony with the other functions of society, is
always the last and inevitable auxiliary.
And this entirely agrees with the universal law of evolution, in
virtue of which, amidst the variation of animal and social
organisms, antecedent forms are not wholly eliminated, but
continue as the basis of the forms which succeed them. So that if
the future evolution of the social administration of defence
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: Eight feet direckly west. Fifty yards in direcksion of suthern
Antelope Peke. Then eighteen to nerest cotonwood. J. H. begins
hear.
Collins read the scrawl twice before an inkling of its meaning
came home to him. Then in a flash his brain was lighted. It was a
memorandum of the place where Dailey's share of the plunder was
buried.
His confederates had known that he had it, and had risked capture
to make a thorough search for the paper. That they had not found
it was due only to the fact that the murdered man had lost his
hat as he scurried down the streets before them.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: has what the words declare and bring. For they are not spoken or
proclaimed to stone and wood, but to those who hear them, to whom He
says: Take and eat, etc. And because He offers and promises forgiveness
of sin, it cannot be received otherwise than by faith. This faith He
Himself demands in the Word when He says: Given and shed for you. As if
He said: For this reason I give it, and bid you eat and drink, that you
may claim it as yours and enjoy it. Whoever now accepts these words,
and believes that what they declare is true, has it. But whoever does
not believe it has nothing, as he allows it to be offered to him in
vain, and refuses to enjoy such a saving good. The treasure, indeed, is
opened and placed at every one's door, yea upon his table, but it is
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