| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: therefore entirely unescapable, whatever may be one's own desire
to attain the irreversible. But apart from that fact, a more
fundamental question awaits us, the question whether men's
opinions ought to be expected to be absolutely uniform in this
field. Ought all men to have the same religion? Ought they to
approve the same fruits and follow the same leadings? Are they
so like in their inner needs that, for hard and soft, for proud
and humble, for strenuous and lazy, for healthy-minded and
despairing, exactly the same religious incentives are required?
Or are different functions in the organism of humanity allotted
to different types of man, so that some may really be the better
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: geographical distribution of spirit-alcoholism (chronic and more
serious, in northern countries and provinces) and wine-alcoholism
(acute and less deep-seated, in the countries and provinces of the
south).
It was therefore natural that indirect measures against alcoholism
should have been resorted to long ago, such as the raising of the
tax on alcoholic drinks, and the lowering of that on wholesome
beverages, such as coffee, tea, and beer; strict limitation of the
number of licenses; increased responsibility of license-holders
before the law, as in America; the expulsion of tipsy members from
workmen's societies; the provision of cheap and wholesome
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: remained obstinately blind, no figures appeared on the terrace,
the garden lay deserted, and without life. My departure had not,
as I half expected it would, drawn the secret into light.
I watched awhile, at times cursing my own meanness; but the
excitement of the moment and the quest tided me over that. Then
I determined to go down into the village and see whether anything
was moving there. I had been down to the inn once, and had been
received half sulkily, half courteously, as a person privileged
at the great house, and therefore to be accepted. It would not
be thought odd if I went again, and after a moment's thought, I
started down the track.
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