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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "Oh, well," said Peter, "it's not altogether, of course. But it's quite a
different thing, the Armenians wanting to get rid of the Turks, and these
bloody niggers wanting to get rid of the Chartered Company. Besides, the
Armenians are Christians, like us!"
"Are YOU Christians?" A strange storm broke across the stranger's
features; he rose to his feet.
"Why, of course, we are!" said Peter. "We're all Christians, we English.
Perhaps you don't like Christians, though? Some Jews don't, I know," said
Peter, looking up soothingly at him.
"I neither love nor hate any man for that which he is called," said the
stranger; "the name boots nothing."
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