| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: rather than abstain from doing right. But the accidental
superior duty being thus fulfilled, they at once return in
allegiance to the common duty of all citizens; and hasten to
denounce themselves; and value at an equal rate their just
crime and their equally just submission to its punishment.
The evading of the police will not long satisfy an active
conscience or a thoughtful head. But to show you how one or
the other may trouble a man, and what a vast extent of
frontier is left unridden by this invaluable eighth
commandment, let me tell you a few pages out of a young man's
life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: his hands on the head of his cane. His boots were broken, but he still had
the cane of a gentleman.
"You vagabonds se Engelschman!" said Tant Sannie, looking straight at him.
This was a near approach to plain English; but the man contemplated the
block abstractedly, wholly unconscious that any antagonism was being
displayed toward him.
"You might not be a Scotchman or anything of that kind, might you?"
suggested the German. "It is the English that she hates."
"My dear friend," said the stranger, "I am Irish every inch of me--father
Irish, mother Irish. I've not a drop of English blood in my veins."
"And you might not be married, might you?" persisted the German. "If you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: Order," and all the above named freedoms are so regulated that, in their
enjoyment, the bourgeoisie encounter no opposition from the like rights
of the other classes. Wherever the bourgeoisie wholly interdicted these
rights to "others," or allowed them their enjoyment under conditions
that were but so many police snares, it was always done only in the
interest of the "public safety," i. e., of the bourgeoisie, as required
by the Constitution.
Hence it comes that both sides-the "Friends of Order," who abolished all
those freedoms, as, well as the democrats, who had demanded them
all--appeal with full right to the Constitution: Each paragraph of the
Constitution contains its own antithesis, its own Upper and Lower
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