| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: of these women--the most conspicuous feature of their whole
culture. "It's impossible!" he would insist. "Women cannot
cooperate--it's against nature."
When we urged the obvious facts he would say: "Fiddlesticks!"
or "Hang your facts--I tell you it can't be done!" And we never
succeeded in shutting him up till Jeff dragged in the hymenoptera.
"`Go to the ant, thou sluggard'--and learn something," he
said triumphantly. "Don't they cooperate pretty well? You can't
beat it. This place is just like an enormous anthill--you know an
anthill is nothing but a nursery. And how about bees? Don't they
manage to cooperate and love one another?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: palace of the valley.
Imlac, who understood traffic, sold part of the jewels the next
day, and hired a house, which he adorned with such magnificence
that he was immediately considered as a merchant of great wealth.
His politeness attracted many acquaintances, and his generosity
made him courted by many dependants. His companions, not being
able to mix in the conversation, could make no discovery of their
ignorance or surprise, and were gradually initiated in the world as
they gained knowledge of the language.
The Prince had by frequent lectures been taught the use and nature
of money; but the ladies could not for a long time comprehend what
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: Dinkys, at the philosophical recluse of Trinity and the phrases and
tradition-worship of my political associates. None of these things
were half alive, and I wanted life to be intensely alive and awake.
I wanted thought like an edge of steel and desire like a flame. The
real work before mankind now, I realised once and for all, is the
enlargement of human expression, the release and intensification of
human thought, the vivider utilisation of experience and the
invigoration of research--and whatever one does in human affairs has
or lacks value as it helps or hinders that.
With that I had got my problem clear, and the solution, so far as I
was concerned, lay in finding out the point in the ostensible life
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