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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: forever; but before the steady gaze of that scrutinizing eye
which one of us shall find himself able to stand erect? It has
become fashionable to heap blame and ridicule upon those who
violently defend an antiquated order of things; and Goetze has
received at the hands of posterity his full share of abuse. His
wrath contrasted unfavourably with Lessing's calmness; and it was
his misfortune to have taken up arms against an opponent who
always knew how to keep the laugh upon his own side. For my own
part I am constrained to admire the militant pastor, as Lessing
himself admired him. From an artistic point of view he is not an
uninteresting figure to contemplate. And although his attempts to
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