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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: prophet; and poor fishers to confound the great clerks of the
world - cannot I make a woman to be a good ruler over you?"
This is the last word of his reasoning. Although he was not
altogether without Puritanic leaven, shown particularly in
what he says of the incomes of Bishops, yet it was rather
loyalty to the old order of things than any generous belief
in the capacity of women, that raised up for them this
clerical champion. His courtly spirit contrasts singularly
with the rude, bracing republicanism of Knox. "Thy knee
shall bow," he says, "thy cap shall off, thy tongue shall
speak reverently of thy sovereign." For himself, his tongue
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