| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: the "fine lady," the human female parasite - the most deadly microbe which
can make its appearance on the surface of any social organism. (The
relation of female parasitism generally, to the peculiar phenomenon of
prostitution, is fundamental. Prostitution can never be adequately dealt
with, either from the moral or the scientific standpoint, unless its
relation to the general phenomenon of female parasitism be fully
recognised. It is the failure to do this which leaves so painful a sense
of abortion on the mind, after listening to most modern utterances on the
question, whether made from the emotional platform of the moral reformer,
or the intellectual platform of the would-be scientist. We are left with a
feeling that the matter has been handled but not dealt with: that the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: elegance, certainly with more solidity, than those literal and
too subtle disputants who have hitherto discoursed upon it
without understanding their own words. That I may open then an
easier way for the ignorant--for these alone I am trying to
serve--I first lay down these two propositions, concerning
spiritual liberty and servitude:--
A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to
none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and
subject to every one.
Although these statements appear contradictory, yet, when they
are found to agree together, they will make excellently for my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: as they are complex, are expressed by a combination of names, for the
combination of names is the essence of a definition. Thus, then, the
elements or letters are only objects of perception, and cannot be defined
or known; but the syllables or combinations of them are known and
expressed, and are apprehended by true opinion. When, therefore, any one
forms the true opinion of anything without rational explanation, you may
say that his mind is truly exercised, but has no knowledge; for he who
cannot give and receive a reason for a thing, has no knowledge of that
thing; but when he adds rational explanation, then, he is perfected in
knowledge and may be all that I have been denying of him. Was that the
form in which the dream appeared to you?
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