| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: to the civilized community even when not actually certifiable as
mentally defective or not obviously imbecile?
Other figures and studies indicate the close relationship between
feeble-mindedness and the spread of venereal scourges. We are
informed that in Michigan, 75 per cent. of the prostitute class is
infected with some form of venereal disease, and that 75 per cent. of
the infected are mentally defective,--morons, imbeciles, or ``border-
line'' cases most dangerous to the community at large. At least 25
per cent. of the inmates of our prisons, according to Dr. Fernald, are
mentally defective and belong either to the feeble-minded or to the
defective-delinquent class. Nearly 50 per cent. of the girls sent to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: literature of a nation, or at any rate which can prevent it becoming
unmanned and enfeebled?
First there is the progress of education. It is possible, and even
probable, that the extension of the means of knowledge over a wider area
and to persons living under new conditions may lead to many new
combinations of thought and language. But, as yet, experience does not
favour the realization of such a hope or promise. It may be truly answered
that at present the training of teachers and the methods of education are
very imperfect, and therefore that we cannot judge of the future by the
present. When more of our youth are trained in the best literatures, and
in the best parts of them, their minds may be expected to have a larger
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: BERTRAM.
This very day,
Great Mars, I put myself into thy file;
Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
A lover of thy drum, hater of love.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE 4. Rousillon. A room in the COUNTESS'S palace.
[Enter COUNTESS and Steward.]
COUNTESS.
Alas! and would you take the letter of her?
Might you not know she would do as she has done,
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