| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: nervous--to wonder if by chance there were something behind it, if
he were kept straight for instance by the knowledge that the hated
Pudneys would have more to tell us if they chose. He was lying
low, but unfortunately it was common wisdom with us in this
connexion that the biggest splashes took place in the quietest
pools. We should have had a merry life indeed if all the splashes
had sprinkled us as refreshingly as the waters we were even then to
feel about our ears. Kent Mulville had been up to his room, but
had come back with a face that told as few tales as I had seen it
succeed in telling on the evening I waited in the lecture-room with
Miss Anvoy. I said to myself that our friend had gone out, but it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: arose, tucked away his pipe, and, stepping up to the young man,
took from off his finger a splendid ruby ring, as red as blood
and as bright as fire, and popped the same into his pocket. And
all the while the serving-man stood gaping like a fish to see
what his comrade was about. "Come," said the travelling
companion, "it is time we were going," and off they went,
shutting the door behind them.
As for the serving-man, though he remembered his promise and said
nothing concerning what he had beheld, his wits buzzed in his
head like a hive of bees, for he thought that of all the ugly
tricks he had seen, none was more ugly than this--to bewitch the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: ``glorious fertility,'' childhood is not merely wasted, but actually
destroyed. Let us look at this matter from the point of view of the
children who survive.
[1] U.S. Department of Labor: Children's Bureau. Infant Mortality Series,
No. 3, pp. 81, 82, 83, 84.
[2] Henry H. Hibbs, Jr. Infant Mortality: Its Relation to Social and
Industrial Conditions, p. 39. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1916.
[3] Cf. U. S. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau: Infant Mortality
Series, No. 11. p. 36.
[4] Havelock Ellis, Sex in Relation to Society, p. 31.
CHAPTER III: ``Children Troop Down From Heaven....''
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