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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: mowed"--struck one brave blow at the huge inflated wind-bag--as
Cyrus and his handful of Persians struck at the Medes; as Alexander
and his handful of Greeks struck afterwards at the Persians--and
behold, it collapsed upon the spot. And then the victors took the
place of the conquered; and became in their turn an aristocracy, and
then a despotism; and in their turn rotted down and perished. And
so the vicious circle repeated itself, age after age, from Egypt and
Assyria to Mexico and Peru.
And therefore, we, free peoples as we are, have need to watch, and
sternly watch, ourselves. Equality of some kind or other is, as I
said, our natural and seemingly inevitable goal. But which
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