| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and would have flung away mine into the bargain if he had had my daughter?
What do you mean by great wrong?"
"True," said the friar, "great right, I meant."
"Right!" exclaimed the baron: "what right has any man to do my daughter
right but myself? What right has any man to drive my daughter's
bridegroom out of the chapel in the middle of the marriage ceremony,
and turn all our merry faces into green wounds and bloody coxcombs,
and then come and tell me he has done us great right?"
"True," said the friar: "he has done neither right nor wrong."
"But he has," said the baron, "he has done both, and I will maintain it
with my glove."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: Now, listen! Find a taxi, and send it here. Tell the chauffeur to
pick me up, and drive me to the corner of the cross street, one block
in the rear of Mr. Hayden-Bond's residence. Don't mention Hayden-Bond's
name. Give the chauffeur simply street directions. Be careful that
he is some one who doesn't know you. Tell him he will be well paid
- and give him this to begin with." She thrust a banknote into the
Sparrow's hand. "You're sure to find one at some all-night cabaret
around here. And remember, when you go home afterward, not a word
to your mother! And not a word to-morrow, or ever-to any one!
You've simply done as you told your employer you were going to do
- spent the night at home."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: frost comes we shall not have a hundred thousand men out of work,
tramping about the streets in a state of disgusting misery, or
whining to their neighbours for alms, or crowding round the doors
of loathsome shelters to try and secure a hunch of bread and a
night's unclean lodging. Each member of the society will share in
the general prosperity and happiness of the society, and if a frost
comes no one will practically be anything the worse.
Upon the other hand, Socialism itself will be of value simply
because it will lead to Individualism.
Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it, by
converting private property into public wealth, and substituting
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