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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: then evil should be conquered, the creation become pure again, and
Ahriman vanish for ever; and, meanwhile, every good man was to fight
valiantly for Ormuzd, his true lord, against Ahriman and all his
works.
Men who held such a creed, and could speak truth and draw the bow,
what might they not do when the hour and the man arrived? They were
not a BIG nation. No; but they were a GREAT nation, even while they
were eating barley-bread and paying tribute to their conquerors the
Medes, in the sterile valleys of Farsistan.
And at last the hour and the man came. The story is half legendary-
-differently told by different authors. Herodotus has one tale,
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