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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "I should be loath," said Lord Menteith, "to apply either
character to my kinsman, Allan M'Aulay. He has shown on many
occasions too much acuteness and sense, of which you this night
had an instance, for the character of an enthusiast; and his high
sense of honour, and manliness of disposition, free him from the
charge of imposture."
"Your lordship, then," said Anderson, "is a believer in his
supernatural attributes?"
"By no means," said the young nobleman; "I think that he
persuades himself that the predictions which are, in reality, the
result of judgment and reflection, are supernatural impressions
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