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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: invalided home; and his successor had but just arrived. In like
manner, the first American commissioner, Henry C. Ide, a man of
character and intelligence, was recalled (I believe by private
affairs) when he was but just settling into the spirit of the work;
and though his place was promptly filled by ex-Governor Ormsbee, a
worthy successor, distinguished by strong and vivacious common
sense, the break was again sensible. The English commissioner, my
friend Bazett Michael Haggard, is thus the only one who has
continued at his post since the beginning. And yet, in spite of
these unusual changes, the Commission has a record perhaps
unrivalled among international commissions. It has been unanimous
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