| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I had never come into her life, but I did not know what
I was doing; and the spell of her beauty and goodness
was strong upon me, so that I was weak and could not
resist what I had never known before in all my life--
love."
"You could not well be blamed," said Joan de Tany,
generously. "Bertrade de Montfort is all and even more
than you have said; it be a benediction simply to have
known her."
As she spoke, Norman of Torn looked upon her criti-
cally for the first time, and he saw that Joan de Tany
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: power of his possessions as compared to the poverty of the females of his
society, the personal loss would be seriously and at once felt, of any
social change which gave to the woman a larger economic independence and
therefore greater freedom of sexual choice. It is not an imaginary danger
which the young dude, of a certain type which sits often in the front row
of the stalls in a theatre, with sloping forehead and feeble jaw, watching
the unhappy women who dance for gold--sees looming before him, as he lisps
out his deep disapproval of increased knowledge and the freedom of
obtaining the means of subsistence in intellectual fields by woman, and
expresses his vast preference for the uncultured ballet-girl over all types
of cultured and productive labouring womenhood in the universe. A subtle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Socrates replied: What say you then? Shall we first survey the ground
already traversed, and retrace the steps on which we were agreed, so
that, if possible we may conduct the remaining portion of the argument
to its issue with like unanimity?[3]
[3] Lit. "try whether we can go through the remaining steps with
like . . ."
Crit. Why, yes! If it is agreeable for two partners in a business to
run through their accounts without dispute, so now as partners in an
argument it will be no less agreeable to sum up the points under
discussion, as you say, with unanimity.
Soc. Well, then, we agreed that economy was the proper title of a
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