| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: men can go out into the world if you like, to sin like fools and
marry like fools, not knowing what you are doing and ashamed to ask.
You'll take the consequences, too, I expect, pretty meekly,
sniggering a bit, sentimentalising a bit, like--like Cambridge
humorists. . . . I mean to know what I'm doing."
He paused to drink, and I think I cut in with ideas of my own. But
one is apt to forget one's own share in a talk, I find, more than
one does the clear-cut objectivity of other people's, and I do not
know how far I contributed to this discussion that followed. I am,
however, pretty certain that it was then that ideal that we were
pleased to call aristocracy and which soon became the common
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Dividing, I say. The poor of the Middle Age had little sense of a
common humanity. Those who owned allegiance to the lord in the next
valley were not their brothers; and at their own lord's bidding,
they buckled on sword and slew the next lord's men, with joyful
heart and good conscience. Only now and then misery compressed them
into masses; and they ran together, as sheep run together to face a
dog. Some wholesale wrong made them aware that they were brothers,
at least in the power of starving; and they joined in the cry which
was heard, I believe, in Mecklenburg as late as 1790: "Den Edelman
wille wi dodschlagen." Then, in Wat Tyler's insurrections, in
Munster Anabaptisms, in Jacqueries, they proved themselves to be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: from a physiological or a psychological point of view of a large
number of criminals, whether mad or of normal intelligence, that
the data of criminal anthropology are not entirely applicable, in
their complete and essential form, to all who commit crimes. They
are to be confined to a certain number, who may be called
congenital, incorrigible, and habitual criminals. But apart from
these there is a class of occasional criminals, who do not
exhibit, or who exhibit in slighter degrees, the anatomical,
physiological, and psychological characteristics which constitute
the type described by Lombroso as ``the criminal man.''
Before further defining these two main classes of criminals, in
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