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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: to the avoidance of war by arbitration, and sink-
ing of class hatred in a deep sense of universal
brotherhood.
Unhappily, when an idealistic creed is formu-
lated in precise and dogmatic language, it invari-
ably loses something of its pristine beauty in the
process of transmutation. Hence the Positivist
philosophy of Comte, though embodying noble
aspirations, has had but a limited influence.
Again, the poetry of Robert Browning, though
less frankly altruistic than that of Cowper or
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