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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: when leprosy descended and took root in the Eight Islands, a
QUID PRO QUO was to be looked for. To that prosperous
mission, and to you, as one of its adornments, God had sent
at last an opportunity. I know I am touching here upon a
nerve acutely sensitive. I know that others of your
colleagues look back on the inertia of your Church, and the
intrusive and decisive heroism of Damien, with something
almost to be called remorse. I am sure it is so with
yourself; I am persuaded your letter was inspired by a
certain envy, not essentially ignoble, and the one human
trait to be espied in that performance. You were thinking of
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