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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: once threw a fork at my elder brother and it stuck in his
forehead, doing no serious damage--happily. There were whole
days of wrath--days, as I remember them. Perhaps they were
only hours. . . . I've never thought before what a peculiar
thing all this raging is in the world. WHY do we rage? They
used to say it was the devil. If it isn't the devil, then
what the devil is it? "After all," he went on as the doctor
was about to answer his question; "as you pointed out, it
isn't the lowlier things that rage. It's the HIGHER things
and US."
"The devil nowadays," the doctor reflected after a pause, "so
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