| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: or whether it was but an imagining born of the horrors of that most
hideous night, in truth I cannot say. At the least I seemed to see
this, and afterwards there were some among the Spaniards who swore
that they had witnessed it also.
On Xaca's lofty summit, now as always stood a pillar of fiery
smoke, and while I gazed, to my vision the smoke and the fire
separated themselves. Out of the fire was fashioned a cross of
flame, that shone like lightning and stretched for many a rod
across the heavens, its base resting on the mountain top. At its
foot rolled the clouds of smoke, and now these too took forms vast
and terrifying, such forms indeed as those that sat in stone within
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: and 8th periods at the Assizes. That is to say, the two sets of
statistics actually indicate a greater or less severity on the
part of juries and judges.
This firmer repression is demonstrated in spite of the continued
increase of attenuating circumstances, which rose at the Assizes
from 50 per cent. in 1833 to 73 per cent. in 1806, and at the
Tribunals from 54 per cent. in 1851 to 65 per cent. in 1886.
Nevertheless it is a fact that the number of cases tried by
default at the Assizes has continuously decreased from a
yearly average of 647 in 1826-30 to one of 266 in 1882-6.
For Italy we have the following figures:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: is to teach the art itself of tillage, Socrates?
[4] Keeping the vulg. order of SS. 3-9, which many commentators would
rearrange in various ways. See Breit. ad loc.; Lincke, op. cit. p.
111 foll.
Yes (I replied), for now it looks as if this art were one which made
the wise and skilled possessor of it wealthy, whilst the unskilled, in
spite of all the pains he takes, must live in indigence.
Isch. Now shall you hear, then,[5] Socrates, the generous nature of
this human art. For is it not a proof of something noble in it, that
being of supreme utility, so sweet a craft to exercise, so rich in
beauty, so acceptable alike to gods and men, the art of husbandry may
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