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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: innocent life was sacrificed to pay the debt of Cobham's cruelty.
Nothing could be more piratical than all this. Nevertheless, as
was said, it was winked at, condoned, if not sanctioned, by the
law; and it was not beneath people of family and respectability
to take part in it. But by and by Protestantism and Catholicism
began to be at somewhat less deadly enmity with each other;
religious wars were still far enough from being ended, but the
scabbard of the sword was no longer flung away when the blade was
drawn. And so followed a time of nominal peace, and a generation
arose with whom it was no longer respectable and worthy--one
might say a matter of duty--to fight a country with which one's
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