| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: be legislated out of existence. They had the right idea that wealth
consisted solely of material things used to promote the welfare of
certain human beings. Their idea of capital was somewhat confused.
They apparently decided that capital was merely that part of capital
used to produce profit. Prices, exchanges, commercial statistics, and
financial operations comprised the subject matter of these older
economists. It would have been considered ``unscientific'' to take
into account the human factors involved. They might study the wear-
and-tear and depreciation of machinery: but the depreciation or
destruction of the human race did not concern them. Under ``wealth''
they never included the vast, wasted treasury of human life and human
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: extreme peril, the horse also should be clad in armour--frontlet,
breastplate, and thigh-pieces;[8] which latter may at the same time
serve as cuisses for the mounted man. Beyond all else, the horse's
belly, being the most vital and defenceless part, should be protected.
It is possible to protect it with the saddle-cloth. The saddle itself
should be of such sort and so stitched as to give the rider a firm
seat, and yet not gall the horse's back.
[8] Cf. "Cyrop." VI. iv. 1; VII. i. 2.
As regards the limbs in general, both horse and rider may be looked
upon as fully armed. The only parts remaining are the shins and feet,
which of course protrude beyond the cuisses, but these also may be
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: well, except for the people, who were so vulgar. 'What can you expect?'
said Miss Beaufain; 'we're descended from the English.' I am very sorry
for Maria--for Mrs. St. Michael--just at present. Her young cousin, John
Mayrant, is making an alliance deeply vexatious to her. Do you happen to
know Miss Hortense Rieppe?"
I had never heard of her.
"No? She has been North lately. I thought you might have met her. Her
father takes her North, I believe, whenever any one will invite them.
They have sometimes managed to make it extend through an unbroken year.
Newport, I am credibly informed, greatly admires her. We in Kings Port
have never (except John Mayrant, apparently) seen anything in her beauty,
|
