| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: that she could alone serve her race and retain her own dignity and
virility. That not by bearing water and weaving linen, but by so training
and disciplining herself that she should be fitted to bear her share in the
labour necessary to the just and wise guidance of a great empire, and be
capable of training a race of men adequate to exercise an enlightened,
merciful, and beneficent rule over the vast masses of subject people--that
so, and so only, could she fulfil her duty toward the new society about
her, and bear its burden together with man, as her ancestresses of bygone
generations had borne the burden of theirs.
That in this direction, and this alone, lay the only possible remedy for
the evils of woman's condition, was a conception apparently grasped by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: vagari et vias obsidere et castris satis praesidii relinquere, ob eam
causam minus commode frumentum commeatumque sibi supportari, in dies
hostium numcrum augeri, non cunctandum existimavit quin pugna decertaret.
Hac re ad consilium delata, ubi omnes idem sentire intellexit, posterum
diem pugnae constituit.
Prima luce productis omnibus copiis duplici acie instituta, auxiliis
in mediam aciem coniectis, quid hostes consilii caperent expectabat.
Illi, etsi propter multitudinem et veterem belli gloriam paucitatemque
nostrorum se tuto dimicaturos existimabant, tamen tutius esse
arbitrabantur obsessis viis commeatu intercluso sine vulnere victoria
potiri, et si propter inopiam rei frumentariae Romani se recipere
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: And we drowsed the long tides idle till Thy Trumpets tore the sea."
Then cried the soul of the stout Apostle Paul to God:
"Once we frapped a ship, and she laboured woundily.
There were fourteen score of these,
And they blessed Thee on their knees,
When they learned Thy Grace and Glory under Malta by the sea!"
Loud sang the souls of the jolly, jolly mariners,
Plucking at their harps, and they plucked unhandily:
"Our thumbs are rough and tarred,
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