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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: alike, Sacrifice and burnt offering thou wouldst not; Then said we,
Lo, we come. In the volume of the book it is written of us, that we
come to do thy will, O God. Yes, long and fantastic is the chain of
causes and effects, which links you here to the old heroes who came
down from Central Asia, because the land had grown so wondrous cold,
that there were ten months of winter to two of summer; and when
simply after warmth and life, and food for them and for their
flocks, they wandered forth to found and help to found a spiritual
kingdom.
And even in their migration, far back in these dim and mystic ages,
have we found the earliest link of the long chain? Not so. What if
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