| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: we shall go on yet, side by side."
For the heart of labouring womanhood cries out today to the man who would
suggest she need not seek new fields of labour, that child-bearing is
enough for her share in life's labour, "Do you dare say to us now, that we
are fit to do nothing but child-bear, that when that is performed our
powers are exhausted? To us, who yet through all the ages of the past,
when child-bearing was persistent and incessant, regarded it hardly as a
toil, but rather as the reward of labour; has our right hand lost its
cunning and our heart its strength, that today, when human labour is easier
and humanity's work grows fairer, you say to us, 'You can do nothing now
but child-bear'? Do you dare to say this, to us, when the upward path of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: of the two vessels from which they flow, and thus prevent any more blood
from coming down into the heart, and becoming more and more rarefied, they
push open the six small valves that are in the orifices of the other two
vessels, through which they pass out, causing in this way all the branches
of the arterial vein and of the grand artery to expand almost
simultaneously with the heart which immediately thereafter begins to
contract, as do also the arteries, because the blood that has entered them
has cooled, and the six small valves close, and the five of the hollow
vein and of the venous artery open anew and allow a passage to other two
drops of blood, which cause the heart and the arteries again to expand as
before. And, because the blood which thus enters into the heart passes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: uncle who, by a contradiction which vanity must explain, after leaving
his nephew a prey to the utmost penury, bequeathed to the man who had
reached celebrity the fortune so pitilessly refused to the unknown
writer. This sudden change in his position made no change in Daniel
d'Arthez's habits; he continued to work with a simplicity worthy of
the antique past, and even assumed new toils by accepting a seat in
the Chamber of Deputies, where he took his seat on the Right.
Since his accession to fame he had sometimes gone into society. One of
his old friends, the now-famous physician, Horace Bianchon, persuaded
him to make the acquaintance of the Baron de Rastignac, under-
secretary of State, and a friend of de Marsay, the prime minister.
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