| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: by your majesty's favor, he returned to Russia."
"And since that time, has he not revisited Siberia?"
"Yes, sire; but he voluntarily returned there," replied
the chief of police, adding, and slightly lowering his voice,
"there was a time, sire, when NONE returned from Siberia."
"Well, whilst I live, Siberia is and shall be a country
whence men CAN return."
The Czar had the right to utter these words with some
pride, for often, by his clemency, he had shown that Rus-
sian justice knew how to pardon.
The head of the police did not reply to this observation,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: taste and to properly reprove her he assumed a grave, dignified
air out of which he was promptly startled by Zoie's even more
unseemly greeting.
"Hello, Jimmy!" she snapped. Her tone was certainly not that of
a heart-broken widow. "It's TIME you got here," she added with
an injured air.
Jimmy gazed at Zoie in astonishment. She was never what he would
have called a sympathetic woman, but really----!
"I came the moment you 'phoned me," he stammered; "what is it?
What's the matter?"
"It's awful," sniffled Zoie. And she tore up and down the room
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: to spend in the countries themselves whatever they
would be able to spend if they were self-governing.
Moreover, it must always be remembered that backwardness
in civilization is not necessarily incurable,
and that with time even the populations of Central
Africa may become capable of democratic self-government,
provided Europeans bend their energies to
this purpose.
The problem of Africa is, of course, a part of the
wider problems of Imperialism, but it is that part in
which the application of Socialist principles is most
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