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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: and a mighty one; see that you serve your nation faithfully with it.
It is a greater trust than ships and armies: you might cast THEM
away, if you were their captain, with less treason to your people
than in casting your own glorious power away, and serving the devil
with it instead of men. Ships and armies you may replace if they
are lost, but a great intellect, once abused, is a curse to the
earth for ever."
This, then, I meant by saying that the arts must have noble motive.
This also I said respecting them, that they never had prospered, nor
could prosper, but when they had such true purpose, and were devoted
to the proclamation of divine truth or law. And yet I saw also that
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