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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: ones of the earth, left "Telemaque" as an Utopia with which private
folks had no concern; and betook themselves to the easier and more
practical model of "Gil Blas."
But there are solid defects in "Telemaque"--indicating corresponding
defects in the author's mind--which would have, in any case,
prevented its doing the good work which Fenelon desired; defects
which are natural, as it seems to me, to his position as a Roman
Catholic priest, however saintly and pure, however humane and
liberal. The king, with him, is to be always the father of his
people; which is tantamount to saying, that the people are to be
always children, and in a condition of tutelage; voluntary, if
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