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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: He kindled, having an auditor whom he chose to think
intelligent. He checked his horse, that fell to grazing the
bit of green by the way. ``As though,'' he said, ``I stood
in Cipango beneath a golden roof, I know that it can be
done! Twelve hundred leagues at the most. Look!'' he
said. ``You are not an ignoramus like some I have met;
nor if I read you right are you like others who not knowing
that True Religion is True Wonder up with hands and cry,
`Blasphemy, Sacrilege and Contradiction!' Earth and water
make an orb. Place ant on apple and see that orbs may
be gone around! Travel far enough and east and west
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