| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: run somewhere; and so it eats its way out between the beds of the
rock, making underground galleries, and at last caves and lofty
halls. For it always eats, remember, at the bottom of its
channel, leaving the roof alone. So it eats, and eats, more in
some places and less in others, according as the stone is harder
or softer, and according to the different direction of the rock-
beds (what we call their dip and strike); till at last it makes
one of those wonderful caverns about which you are so fond of
reading--such a cave as there actually is in the rocks of the
mountain of Whernside, fed by the swallow-holes around the
mountain-top; a cave hundreds of yards long, with halls, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the
softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the
differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of
an age of physical force; where population is balanced and
abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a
blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and
off-spring are secure, there is less necessity--indeed there is
no necessity--for an efficient family, and the specialization
of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.
We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and in this
future age it was complete. This, I must remind you, was my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: simple acknowledgment of this offence against the college and its
rules."
"I do not care that for Mrs. Miller," said Agatha, snapping her
fingers. "And you are not half so good as I thought."
"Agatha," said Mr. Jansenius, "I desire you to hold your tongue."
Agatha drew a deep breath, sat down resignedly, and said: "There!
I have done. I have lost my temper; so now we have all lost our
tempers."
"You have no right to lose your temper, Miss," said Mr.
Jansenius, following up a fancied advantage.
"I am the youngest, and the least to blame," she replied. "There
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