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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: "He that cometh in the name of all"--the popular military despot--
the "saviour of his country"--he is our internecine enemy on both
sides of the Atlantic, whenever he rises--the inaugurator of that
Imperialism, that Caesarism into which Rome sank, when not her
liberties merely, but her virtues, were decaying out of her--the
sink into which all wicked States, whether republics or monarchies,
are sure to fall, simply because men must eat and drink for to-
morrow they die. The Military and Bureaucratic Despotism which
keeps the many quiet, as in old Rome, by PANEM ET CIRCENSES--bread
and games--or, if need be, Pilgrimages; that the few may make money,
eat, drink, and be merry, as long as it can last. That, let it ape
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