| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: But it is a revolution that cannot be stopped.
The smaller family, with its lower infant mortality rate, is, in more
definite and concrete manner than many actions outwardly deemed
``moral,'' the expression of moral judgment and responsibility. It is
the assertion of a standard of living, inspired by the wish to obtain
a fuller and more expressive life for the children than the parents
have enjoyed. If the morality or immorality of any course of conduct
is to be determined by the motives which inspire it, there is
evidently at the present day no higher morality than the intelligent
practice of Birth Control.
The immorality of many who practise Birth Control lies in not daring
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The hut and boma were as he had left them, but there was no
sign of either the man or the woman. Crossing the clearing, he
entered the boma and then the hut. Both were empty, and his
trained nostrils told him that they had been gone for at
least two days. As he was about to leave the hut he saw a
paper pinned upon the wall with a sliver of wood and taking
it down, he read:
After what you told me about Miss Kircher, and knowing
that you dislike her, I feel that it is not fair to her and to
you
that we should impose longer upon you. I know that our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: we term the cause, and pleasure to the infinite or indefinite class. We
will examine the place and origin of both.
What is the origin of pleasure? Her natural seat is the mixed class, in
which health and harmony were placed. Pain is the violation, and pleasure
the restoration of limit. There is a natural union of finite and infinite,
which in hunger, thirst, heat, cold, is impaired--this is painful, but the
return to nature, in which the elements are restored to their normal
proportions, is pleasant. Here is our first class of pleasures. And
another class of pleasures and pains are hopes and fears; these are in the
mind only. And inasmuch as the pleasures are unalloyed by pains and the
pains by pleasures, the examination of them may show us whether all
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