| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: their cases adjudicated on, year after year. But that is not all.
There are various magistrates to examine and approve[8] and decide
between; there are orphans[9] whose status must be examined; and
guardians of prisoners to appoint. These, be it borne in mind, are all
matters of yearly occurrence; while at intervals there are exemptions
and abstentions from military service[10] which call for adjudication,
or in connection with some other extraordinary misdemeanour, some case
of outrage and violence of an exceptional character, or some charge of
impiety. A whole string of others I simply omit; I am content to have
named the most important part with the exception of the assessments of
tribute which occur, as a rule, at intervals of five years.[11]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: He, when he heares of her, cannot restraine
From the excesse of Laughter. Heere he comes.
Enter Cassio.
As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad:
And his vnbookish Ielousie must conserue
Poore Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behauiours
Quite in the wrong. How do you Lieutenant?
Cas. The worser, that you giue me the addition,
Whose want euen killes me
Iago. Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't:
Now, if this Suit lay in Bianca's dowre,
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: shall best be serving the pivotal interests of civilization.
To conclude this introduction: my initiation, as I have confessed, was
primarily an emotional one. My interest in Birth Control was awakened
by experience. Research and investigation have followed. Our effort
has been to raise our program from the plane of the emotional to the
plane of the scientific. Any social progress, it is my belief, must
purge itself of sentimentalism and pass through the crucible of
science. We are willing to submit Birth Control to this test. It is
part of the purpose of this book to appeal to the scientist for aid,
to arouse that interest which will result in widespread research and
investigation. I believe that my personal experience with this idea
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