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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: did Moses and Confucius, the two greatest human law-givers?--witness
the existence, as a nation, of the Jews and Chinese, the former in
spite of their dispersion over the whole earth, and the latter in
spite of their isolation."
"Ah! dear me! what work you are cutting out for me!" cried the rector
naively. "But I shall triumph, I shall convert you all! You are much
nearer to the true faith than you think you are. Truth always lurks
behind falsehood; go on a step, turn round, and then you'll see it."
This little outburst of the good rector had the effect of changing the
conversation.
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