| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: My duty here was to blow the bellows, swing the crane, and empty the flasks
in which castings were made; and at times this was hot and heavy work.
The articles produced here were mostly for ship work, and in the busy season
the foundry was in operation night and day. I have often worked two nights
and every working day of the week. My foreman, Mr. Cobb, was a good man,
and more than once protected me from abuse that one or more of the hands
was disposed to throw upon me. While in this situation I had little time
for mental improvement. Hard work, night and day, over a furnace hot
enough to keep the metal running like water, was more favorable
to action than thought; yet here I often nailed a newspaper to the post
near my bellows, and read while I was performing the up and down motion
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: difference. That girl doesn't care a button. She knows best of
all what I think of Flora Saunt."
"And what may your opinion be?"
"Why, that she's not worth troubling about-- an idiot too abysmal."
"Doesn't she care for that?"
"Just enough, as you saw, to hug me till I cry out. She's too
pleased with herself for anything else to matter."
"Surely, my dear friend," I rejoined, "she has a good deal to be
pleased with!"
"So every one tells her, and so you would have told her if I had
given you the chance. However, that doesn't signify either, for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: before the revision of 1832, whilst capital punishment shows a
certain diminution (especially due to the laws of 1832, 1848, &c.,
which reduced the number of cases involving the death penalty),
though continuing at a certain level since 1861, sentences of
penal servitude and solitary confinement show a con tinued
increase from the second period, and especially since 1851.
So also at the Tribunals, except for a few oscillations, as in the
ninth period, there is a sustained increase of repression.
And the fact that this increased ratio of the more serious
punishments actually indicates a greater severity on the part of
the judges can only be contested on the ground of a simultaneous
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