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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a
rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it
is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked
on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered and
who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe." He spoke
this with a voice so modulated to the different feelings expressed
in his speech, with an eye so full of lofty design and heroism,
that can you wonder that these men were moved? They looked at one
another and were unable to reply. I spoke; I told them to retire
and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them
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