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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: miserably. Caesar refused to listen and was stabbed in the
Senate House. The Bourbon Louis refused to listen and died on
the guillotine; Charles Stuart refused to listen and died on the
block; the white Czar refused to listen and was blown up in his
own capital. Will you let it come to that? Will you drive us to
it? We who boast of our land of freedom, we who live in the
country of liberty?
"Go on as you have begun and it WILL come to that. Turn a deaf
ear to that cry of 'Let My people go' too long and another cry
will be raised, that you cannot choose but hear, a cry that you
cannot shut out. It will be the cry of the man on the street,
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