| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: made between Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been
carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that
this peace had been extorted from the King, as well by the
influence of the parliamentary party in England, as by the terror
of their own arms. It is true, King Charles had since then
visited the capital of his ancient kingdom, had assented to the
new organization of the church, and had distributed honours and
rewards among the leaders of the party which had shown themselves
most hostile to his interests; but it was suspected that
distinctions so unwillingly conferred would be resumed as soon as
opportunity offered. The low state of the English Parliament was
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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: the few cases of connected offences due to the same action, or
arising out of the same occasion) is a mere case of relapse, and
therefore proves in the majority of cases that the law is not
dealing with true occasional criminals; for these, as a rule, like
criminals of passion, only commit a single crime or offence.
The two fundamental conditions of the conditional sentence in
Europe (a slight infraction and a nonrelapsed criminal) do not,
therefore, afford a complete guarantee of the utility of its
application.
It is true that this system tends to fix the attention of the
judge on the personal conditions of the prisoner, requiring him to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: off more lightly than a stick of similar thickness, and bounding
up, turned over on the edge of the block and then fell to the
floor.
He heard it fall before he felt any pain, but before he had time
to be surprised he felt a burning pain and the warmth of flowing
blood. He hastily wrapped the stump in the skirt of his cassock,
and pressing it to his hip went back into the room, and standing
in front of the woman, lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice:
'What do you want?'
She looked at his pale face and his quivering left cheek, and
suddenly felt ashamed. She jumped up, seized her fur cloak, and
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