| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: co-existence of the inquisitorial trial, which impairs every
individual guarantee, with the political liberties of the
medival Italian republics.
This is why the number of acquittals, and of the admission of
extenuating circumstances, is always very remarkable, even in the
Correctional Tribunals, which in Italy show proportions not
greatly differing from those of the Assize Courts.
We must remember that, under our modern penal procedure, it is not
the individual guarantees that are lacking, such as the assigning
of reasons for the sentence, the almost total abolition of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: sign it, if there was a good dose of squaring to come after it. I could
stand a good lot of that sort of thing--squaring--if it would only come my
way."
The men laughed in a dreary sort of way, and the third man, who had not
spoken yet, rolled round on to his back, and took the pipe from his mouth.
"I tell you what," said the keen man, "those of us up here who have got a
bit of land and are trying honestly and fairly to work, are getting pretty
sick of this humbugging fighting. If we'd had a few men like the Curries
and Bowkers of the old days up here from the first, all this would never
have happened. And there's no knowing when a reason won't turn up for
keeping the bloody thing on or stopping it off for a time, to break out
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: "As we do not wish to get up our rope again--and can't
comfortably stay here--I approve," said Jeff solemnly.
Terry slid down first--said he'd show us how a Christian
meets his death. Luck was with us. We had put on the thickest
of those intermediate suits, leaving our tunics behind, and made
this scramble quite successfully, though I got a pretty heavy fall
just at the end, and was only kept on the second ledge by main
force. The next stage was down a sort of "chimney"--a long
irregular fissure; and so with scratches many and painful and
bruises not a few, we finally reached the stream.
It was darker there, but we felt it highly necessary to put as
Herland |
