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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'for hitherto I own I have regarded it as of all dirty,
sneaking, and ungentlemanly trades, the least and lowest.'
'To defend society?' asked Somerset; 'to stake one's life for
others? to deracinate occult and powerful evil? I appeal to
Mr. Godall. He, at least, as a philosophic looker-on at
life, will spit upon such philistine opinions. He knows that
the policeman, as he is called upon continually to face
greater odds, and that both worse equipped and for a better
cause, is in form and essence a more noble hero than the
soldier. Do you, by any chance, deceive yourself into
supposing that a general would either ask or expect, from the
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