| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: through long reaches may yet remain wholly distinct, one finding its way
satisfactorily to the sea, while the other loses itself in sand or becomes
a stagnant marsh, so our modern male and female movements, taking their
rise from the same material conditions in modern civilisation, and
presenting endless and close analogies with one another in their cause of
development, yet remain fundamentally distinct. By both movements the
future of the race must be profoundly modified for good or evil; both touch
the race in a manner absolutely vital; but both will have to be fought out
on their own ground, and independently: and it can be only by determined,
conscious, and persistent action on the part of woman that the solution of
her own labour problems will proceed co-extensively with that of the other.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: STRANGER: Is not the third form of government the rule of the multitude,
which is called by the name of democracy?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: And do not these three expand in a manner into five, producing
out of themselves two other names?
YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?
YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?
STRANGER: There is a criterion of voluntary and involuntary, poverty and
riches, law and the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply to them; the
two first they subdivide accordingly, and ascribe to monarchy two forms and
two corresponding names, royalty and tyranny.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: jury always follows its private conviction, the inspiration of
sentiment, the voice of the conscience, pure instinct, in place of
the stern and artificial maxims of the trained lawyer.
I do not deny these qualities of the jury; but I very much suspect
that they are serious and dangerous vices rather than useful
qualities in a legal institution.
In the first place, I believe that the distinction of powers or
social functions, corresponding to the natural law of division of
labour, ought not to be destroyed by the jury. The duty of the
judicial power, before everything else, is to observe and apply
the written law; for if we once admit the possibility that the
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