| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: don't see him soon, he will have one of his violent fits."
I knew the man would not have said this without some cause,
so I said, "All right, I'll go now," and I asked the others
to wait a few minutes for me, as I had to go and see my patient.
"Take me with you, friend John," said the Professor."His case in your diary
interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on our case.
I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is disturbed."
"May I come also?" asked Lord Godalming.
"Me too?" said Quincey Morris. "May I come?" said Harker.
I nodded, and we all went down the passage together.
We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far
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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: measures against such as cause loss to other persons, and against
their accomplices and abettors, by treating the recovery of
damages as a social function as signed to its officials,
that is to say, to the Public Prosecutor at the bar, to the judges
in their sentences, to the prison officials in the ultimate
payment for prison labour, and in the stipulation for conditional
release.''
The classical principle that indemnification for loss caused by an
unlawful act is a purely civil and private obligation of the
offender (like that created by any breach of contract!), and that
in consequence it ought to be essentially distinct from the penal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: lacking in strength of soul; and what I say is, he will not adhere
long to the slavish employment which his father has prepared for him,
but, in the absence of any earnest friend and guardian, he is like to
be led into some base passion and go to great lengths in depravity."
[55] Son of Anthemion. See Plat. "Men." 90 B, {airountai goun auton
epi tas megistas arkhas}, Plut. "Alc." 4; id. "Coriol." 14;
Aristot. "Ath. Pol." 27, 25, re {to dekazein}; 34, 23. A moderate
oligarch; cf. Xen. "Hell." II. iii. 42, 44; Schol. Cod. Clarkiani
ad Plat. "Apol." 18 B ap. L. Dind. ad loc.; cf. Diod. xiii. 64.
[56] Cf. Plat. "Apol." 23 E.
[57] e.g. Patroclus dying predicts the death of Hector who had slain
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