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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: was the first to conceive the divided races as a unity. Before his
time there had been gods and men, and, feeling through the
mysticism of sympathy that in himself each had been made incarnate,
he calls himself the Son of the one or the Son of the other,
according to his mood. More than any one else in history he wakes
in us that temper of wonder to which romance always appeals. There
is still something to me almost incredible in the idea of a young
Galilean peasant imagining that he could bear on his own shoulders
the burden of the entire world; all that had already been done and
suffered, and all that was yet to be done and suffered: the sins
of Nero, of Caesar Borgia, of Alexander VI., and of him who was
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