| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: over a cliff. And a nice one you are, to come running out and
yell 'Stop!' at me, and let your brother go on over the cliff.
What he needs to save his legs is that crack in Germany, and
that's the arm-hold I'm offering.
"Wish you could see my rooms. Walls all decorated with horsehair
bridles--scores of them--hundreds of them. They're no use to me,
and they cost like Sam Scratch. But there's a lot of convicts
making them, and I go on buying. Why, I've spent more money in a
single night on whiskey than would get the best specialists and
pay all the expenses of a dozen cases like your brother's. And
remember, you've got nothing to do with this. If your brother
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: Each looked upon the other, and each laughed, so thorough and so
droll was the disguise.
"Yet I would it were but summer and a clear day," grumbled the
outlaw, "that I might see myself in the mirror of a pool. There be
many of Sir Daniel's men that know me; and if we fell to be
recognised, there might be two words for you, brother, but as for
me, in a paternoster while, I should be kicking in a rope's-end."
Thus they set forth together along the road to Shoreby, which, in
this part of its course, kept near along the margin or the forest,
coming forth, from time to time, in the open country, and passing
beside poor folks' houses and small farms.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: in our modern societies, would then give place to the untrammelled action
of attraction and affection alone between the sexes, and sexual love, after
its long pilgrimage in the deserts, would be enabled to return at last, a
king crowned.
But, apart from the two classes of persons whose objection to the entrance
of woman to new fields of labour is based more or less instinctively on the
fear of personal loss, there is undoubtedly a small, if a very small,
number of sincere persons whose fear as to severance between the sexes to
result from woman's entrance into the new field, is based upon a more
abstract and impersonal ground.
It is not easy to do full justice in an exact statement to views held
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