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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: considerable part in Aram's disposition. He would seem to have
thought himself a superior person, above the laws that bind
ordinary men. He showed at the end no consciousness of his
guilt. Being something of a philosopher, he had no doubt
constructed for himself a philosophy of life which served to
justify his own actions. He was a deist, believing in "one
almighty Being the God of Nature," to whom he recommended himself
at the last in the event of his "having done amiss." He
emphasised the fact that his life had been unpolluted and his
morals irreproachable. But his views as to the murder of Clark
he left unexpressed. He suggested as justification of it that
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