| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: #STARTMARK#
We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
Article 1
Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a
Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members
The United States Constitution |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: rows, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines,
for our vines have tender grapes." Oh--you queens--you queens!
among the hills and happy greenwood of this land of yours, shall the
foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; and in your
cities, shall the stones cry out against you, that they are the only
pillows where the Son of Man can lay His head?
PREFACE TO THE LATER EDITIONS
Being now fifty-one years old, and little likely to change my mind
hereafter on any important subject of thought (unless through
weakness of age), I wish to publish a connected series of such parts
of my works as now seem to me right, and likely to be of permanent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: prevented from exposing on the stage by the Censorship twenty years
ago) the Government yielded to an outcry for flagellation led by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and passed an Act under which a judge can
sentence a man to be flogged to the utmost extremity with any
instrument usable for such a purpose that he cares to prescribe. Such
an Act is not a legislative phenomenon but a psychopathic one. Its
effect on the White Slave Traffic was, of course, to distract public
attention from its real cause and from the people who really profit by
it to imaginary "foreign scoundrels," and to secure a monopoly of its
organization for women.
And all this evil is made possible by the schoolmaster with his cane
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