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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: defence. But mankind--the race would perish did they cease to
aid each other.--From the time that the mother binds the child's
head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-
damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual
help. All, therefore, that need aid, have right to ask it of
their fellow-mortals; no one who has the power of granting can
refuse it without guilt."
"And in this simple hope, poor maiden," said the Solitary, "thou
hast come into the desert, to seek one whose wish it were that
the league thou hast spoken of were broken for ever, and that, in
very truth, the whole race should perish? Wert thou not
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