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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: to scorn. And, in truth, the message is so long I could not well remember
it; give me other work to do."
And the stranger said, "Take a message to the men and women of this land.
Go, from the Zambezi to the sea, and cry to its white men and women, and
say: 'I saw a wide field, and in it were two fair beasts. Wide was the
field about them and rich was the earth with sweet scented herbs, and so
abundant was the pasturage that hardly might they consume all that grew
about them: and the two were like one to another, for they were the sons
of one mother. And as I looked, I saw, far off to the northward, a speck
within the sky, so small it was, and so high it was, that the eye scarce
might mark it. Then it came nearer and hovered over the spot where the two
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