| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: when they think he is selfish, unfeeling, or a muff. And the
socialist propaganda has imported ideas of public service into
private employment. Labour in Britain has been growing
increasingly impatient of bad or selfish industrial leadership.
Labour trouble in Great Britain turns wholly upon the idea
crystallised in the one word "profiteer." Legislation and
regulation of hours of labour, high wages, nothing will keep
labour quiet in Great Britain if labour thinks it is being
exploited for private gain.
Labour feels very suspicious of private gain. For that suspicion
a certain rather common type of employer is mainly to blame.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: or my daughters! . . . Ah! it is too late, I am dying, and they
are not here! . . . Dying without them! . . . Nasie! Fifine! Why
do you not come to me? Your papa is going----"
"Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself. There, there, lie quietly and
rest; don't worry yourself, don't think."
"I shall not see them. Oh! the agony of it!"
"You SHALL see them."
"Really?" cried the old man, still wandering. "Oh! shall I see
them; I shall see them and hear their voices. I shall die happy.
Ah! well, after all, I do not wish to live; I cannot stand this
much longer; this pain that grows worse and worse. But, oh! to
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: said Virginia, "but if to explain to me will
necessitate betraying my father's confidence
I prefer that you remain silent."
"You do not understand," broke in the man, "you cannot
guess the horrors that I have seen upon this island,
or the worse horrors that are to come. Could you dream
of what lies in store for you, you would seek death rather
than face the future. I have been loyal to your father,
Virginia, but were you not blind, or indifferent,
you would long since have seen that your welfare
means more to me than my loyalty to him--
The Monster Men |
