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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: grizzly, or a wasting sickness which fell upon a man in his own
lodge till he coughed, and the life of his lungs went out through
his mouth and nostrils. Likewise did the powers receive
sacrifice. It was all one. And the witch doctor was versed in
the thoughts of the powers and chose unerringly. It was very
natural. Death came by many ways, yet was it all one after all,--
a manifestation of the all-powerful and inscrutable.
But Hitchcock came of a later world-breed. His traditions were
less concrete and without reverence, and he said, "Not so, Sipsu.
You are young, and yet in the full joy of life. The witch doctor
is a fool, and his choice is evil. This thing shall not be."
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