| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: homes, or, still better, some less old-fashioned substitute, such
as lying-in hospitals and home attendance for young
mothers, might do much to prevent infanticide and abortion, which
are not checked by the severest punishment.--Prisoners' aid
societies, especially for the young, might be useful as penal
substitutes, although much less so than is generally alleged, with
plenty of eloquence and little practical work. There is always
this strong objection to them, that we ought to succour workmen
who continue honest in spite of their wretchedness before those
who have been in prison; and again, in place of bestowing
patronage on released prisoners without distinction, many of whom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Jansen, who sends me all the worst French novels she can find, I
don't think I could get through the day. Doctors are no use at
all, except to get fees out of one. They can't even cure my
heartburn.'
'I have brought you a cure for that, Lady Clem,' said Lord Arthur
gravely. 'It is a wonderful thing, invented by an American.'
'I don't think I like American inventions, Arthur. I am quite sure
I don't. I read some American novels lately, and they were quite
nonsensical.'
'Oh, but there is no nonsense at all about this, Lady Clem! I
assure you it is a perfect cure. You must promise to try it'; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: in all the literature of my native country. As every hour taught
me something new, I lived in a continual course of gratification;
but as I advanced towards manhood, I lost much of the reverence
with which I had been used to look on my instructors; because when
the lessons were ended I did not find them wiser or better than
common men.
"At length my father resolved to initiate me in commerce; and,
opening one of his subterranean treasuries, counted out ten
thousand pieces of gold. 'This, young man,' said he, 'is the stock
with which you must negotiate. I began with less than a fifth
part, and you see how diligence and parsimony have increased it.
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