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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: The stranger waited a while before he answered; then he said,--"There have
been rich men who have desired to join us. There was a young man once; and
when he heard the conditions, he went away sorrowful, for he had great
possessions."
There was silence again for a while.
"Is it long since your company was started?" asked Peter.
"There is no man living who can conceive of its age," said the stranger.
"Even here on this earth it began, when these hills were young, and these
lichens had hardly shown their stains upon the rocks, and man still raised
himself upwards with difficulty because the sinews in his thighs were weak.
In those days, which men reck not of now, man, when he hungered, fed on the
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