| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: "A cat! a cat!" cried other mice as they scrambled out of
holes both large and snug. Noiseless they ran away into the dark.
THE TOAD AND THE BOY
THE TOAD AND THE BOY
THE water-fowls were flying over the marshy lakes. It was now
the hunting season. Indian men, with bows and arrows, were wading
waist deep amid the wild rice. Near by, within their wigwams, the
wives were roasting wild duck and making down pillows.
In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red
porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.
Beside her lay a black-eyed baby boy cooing and laughing. Reaching
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: Nevertheless the execution of punishment, though it is the less
important part of the function of social defence, which should be
carried out in harmony with the other functions of society, is
always the last and inevitable auxiliary.
And this entirely agrees with the universal law of evolution, in
virtue of which, amidst the variation of animal and social
organisms, antecedent forms are not wholly eliminated, but
continue as the basis of the forms which succeed them. So that if
the future evolution of the social administration of defence
against crime is to consist in the development of the primitive
forms of direct physical coercion into the higher forms of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: neighbours and kinsmen on their own terms, he was compelled to
acquiesce in their notions of good faith and regular procedure.
Earnscliff now requested the assistance of a few of the party to
convey Miss Vere to her father's castle of Ellieslaw, to which
she was peremptory in desiring to be conducted. This was readily
granted; and five or six young men agreed to attend him as an
escort. Hobbie was not of the number. Almost heart-broken by
the events of the day, and his final disappointment, he returned
moodily home to take such measures as he could for the sustenance
and protection of his family, and to arrange with his neighbours
the farther steps which should be adopted for the recovery of
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