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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for a moment, and then the younger of them, with a vile name
upon his lips, rushed toward me with ready sword.
He had been standing a little behind his companion, Lakor,
during our parley, and now, ere he could engage me, the older man
grasped his harness and drew him back.
"Hold!" commanded Lakor. "There will be plenty of time to
fight if we find it wise to fight at all. There be good reasons
why every thern upon Barsoom should yearn to spill the blood of
the blasphemer, the sacrilegist; but let us mix wisdom with our
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