| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: evil that was done for gain by the greedy was refined on and done for
pleasure by the lustful. Flogging has become a pleasure purchasable
in our streets, and inhibition a grown-up habit that children play at.
"Go and see what baby is doing; and tell him he mustnt" is the last
word of the nursery; and the grimmest aspect of it is that it was
first formulated by a comic paper as a capital joke.
Technical Instruction
Technical instruction tempts to violence (as a short cut) more than
liberal education. The sailor in Mr Rudyard Kipling's Captains
Courageous, teaching the boy the names of the ship's tackle with a
rope's end, does not disgust us as our schoolmasters do, especially as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: knee, and his eyes directed to a corner of the floor. "I can bear
it no more," he repeated.
"Come," said the lawyer, "I see you have some good reason,
Poole; I see there is something seriously amiss. Try to tell me
what it is."
"I think there's been foul play," said Poole, hoarsely.
"Foul play!" cried the lawyer, a good deal frightened and
rather inclined to be irritated in consequence. "What foul play!
What does the man mean?"
"I daren't say, sir," was the answer; "but will you come along
with me and see for yourself?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: raising their eyes.
The Prince, his sons and the other mourners in the men's room
were clothed in white fur, and the servants too, who stood in the
sacrificial hall, and at intervals along the way towards the
hall, wore white fur coats instead of sackcloth.
To the left of the Princess there knelt in succession all the
secondary wives of Prince Su, and if I mistake not there were
five of these concubines. Behind the Princess knelt her son's
wife--the future Princess Su, and on her left, the daughters and
granddaughters of the Prince knelt in succession. The Princess
and secondary princesses had bands of sackcloth wound around
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