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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: moment, in wild freedom, to that demoniac element, which, as Goethe
says, underlies his nature and all nature; and to prefer for an
hour, to the normal and respectable ditch-water, a bottle of
champagne or even a carouse on fire-water, let the consequences be
what they may.
How else shall we explain such a phenomenon as those old crusades?
Were they undertaken for any purpose, commercial or other?
Certainly not for lightening an overburdened population. Nay, is
not the history of your own Mormons, and their exodus into the far
West, one of the most startling instances which the world has seen
for several centuries, of the unexpected and incalculable forces
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