| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: paint some of the identical little live cells that Adam christened in
the Garden of Eden. But if big things like us didnt die, we'd crowd
one another off the face of the globe. Nothing survived, sir, except
the sort of people that had the sense and good manners to die and make
room for the fresh supplies. And so death was introduced by Natural
Selection. You get it out of your head, my lad, that I'm going to die
because I'm wearing out or decaying. Theres no such thing as decay to
a vital man. I shall clear out; but I shant decay.
BENTLEY. And what about the wrinkles and the almond tree and the
grasshopper that becomes a burden and the desire that fails?
TARLETON. Does it? by George! No, sir: it spiritualizes. As to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: of others: will you take part in that also?" We reply: Yes; more
particularly in that field we intend to play our part. We have always
borne part of the weight of war, and the major part. It is not merely that
in primitive times we suffered from the destruction of the fields we tilled
and the houses we built; or that in later times as domestic labourers and
producers, though unwaged, we, in taxes and material loss and additional
labour, paid as much as our males towards the cost of war; nor is it that
in a comparatively insignificant manner, as nurses of the wounded in modern
times, or now and again as warrior chieftainesses and leaders in primitive
and other societies, we have borne our part; nor is it even because the
spirit of resolution in its women, and their willingness to endure, has in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: -- `The king's service! His majesty's musketeers!'"
"Because you gave me the order, sire."
"I?"
"Yourself."
"Indeed, I did not say a word, monsieur."
"Sire, an order is given by a sign, by a gesture, by a
glance, as intelligibly, as freely, and as clearly as by
word of mouth. A servant who has nothing but ears is not
half a good servant."
"Your eyes are very penetrating, then, monsieur."
"How is that, sire?"
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