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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: lived mostly in little settlements, separated by long distances
from one another, so that they could neither make nor enforce
laws to protect themselves. Each man or little group of men had
to depend upon his or their own strength to keep what belonged to
them, and to prevent fierce men or groups of men from seizing
what did not belong to them.
It is the natural disposition of everyone to get all that he can.
Little children, for instance, always try to take away from
others that which they want, and to keep it for their own. It is
only by constant teaching that they learn that they must not do
so; that they must not take by force what does not belong to
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