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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: dolls, but men and women worthy of the name; with
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
The perfect spirit, nobly planned
To cheer, to counsel, and command.
Such seems to be the education and government appointed for man by
the voluntatem Dei in rebus revelatum, and the education, therefore,
which the man of science will accept and carry out. But the men of
the Ancien Regime--in as far as it was a Regime at all--tried to be
wiser than the Almighty. Why not? They were not the first, nor
will be the last, by many who have made the same attempt. So this
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