| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: But we have no more than enough for twain,
Singing, hey down, ho down, down, derry down."
"Then give me some money," said bold Robin Hood,
"For none can I find in the good greenwood,
All on the fallen leaves so brown."
"No money have we, good brother," said they:
"Then," said he, "we three for money will pray:
Singing, hey down, ho down, down, derry down:
And whatever shall come at the end of our prayer,
We three holy friars will piously share,
All on the fallen leaves so brown."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: are violently abolished the better. It is true that society may make
physical claims on the child as well as mental ones: the child must
learn to walk, to use a knife and fork, to swim, to ride a bicycle, to
acquire sufficient power of self-defence to make an attack on it an
arduous and uncertain enterprise, perhaps to fly. What as a matter of
common-sense it clearly has not a right to do is to make this an
excuse for keeping the child slaving for ten hours at physical
exercises on the ground that it is not yet as dexterous as Cinquevalli
and as strong as Sandow.
The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
In a word, we have no right to insist on educating a child; for its
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "Not to-day, ma'am. There are going to be a lot of to-morrows for
you and me, and Tucson will have to wait till then."
"Didn't I give you an answer last week?"
"You did, but I didn't take it. Now I'm ready for your
sure-enough answer."
She flashed a look at him that mocked his confidence. "I've heard
about the vanity of girls, but never in my experience have I met
any so colossal as this masculine vanity now on exhibit. Do you
really think, Mr. Collins, that all you have to do to win a woman
is to look impressive and tell her that you have decided to marry
her?"
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