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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: of supreme importance in the history of life. It is like the
appearance of self-consciousness in some creature that has
not hitherto had self-consciousness. And so far as we are
concerned, we are the true kingship of the world.
Necessarily. We who know, are the true king. . . .I wonder
how this appeals to you. It is stuff I have thought out very
slowly and carefully and written and approved. It is the very
core of my life. . . . And yet when one comes to say these
things to someone else, face to face. . . . It is much more
difficult to say than to write."
Sir Richmond noted how the doctor's chair creaked as he
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