| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: But, it has also been objected, "What, and if the female half of humanity,
though able, in addition to the exercise of its reproductive functions, to
bear its share in the new fields of social labour as it did in the old, be
yet in certain directions a less productive labourer than the male? What
if, in the main, the result of the labour of the two halves of humanity
should not be found to be exactly equal?"
To this it may be answered, that it is within the range of possibility
that, mysteriously co-ordinated with the male reproductive function in the
human, there may also be in some directions a tendency to possess gifts for
labour useful and beneficial to the race in the stage of growth it has now
reached, in excess of those possessed by the female. We see no reason why
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: heart-tightening ecstasies of dread.
All this has no other effect than to fill Siegfried with wonder
and curiosity; for the forest is a place of delight for him. He
is as eager to experience Mimmy's terrors as a schoolboy to feel
what an electric shock is like. Then Mimmy has the happy idea of
describing Fafnir to him as a likely person to give him an
exemplary fright. Siegfried jumps at the idea, and, since Mimmy
cannot mend the sword for him, proposes to set to work then and
there to mend it for himself. Mimmy shakes his head, and bids him
see now how his youthful laziness and frowardness have found him
out--how he would not learn the smith's craft from Professor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: sermons in so good a manner as he does, without being
the better for it himself. It must make him think;
and I have no doubt that he oftener endeavours to restrain
himself than he would if he had been anything but a clergyman."
"We cannot prove to the contrary, to be sure; but I wish
you a better fate, Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man
whose amiableness depends upon his own sermons; for though
he may preach himself into a good-humour every Sunday,
it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green
geese from Monday morning till Saturday night."
"I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny,"
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