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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: after years, as they borrowed their art, from Babylonians,
Assyrians, and other Semitic nations whom they conquered. From the
age of five to that of twenty, their lads were instructed but in two
things--to speak the truth and to shoot with the bow. To ride was
the third necessary art, introduced, according to Xenophon, after
they had descended from their mountain fastnessess to conquer the
whole East.
Their creed was simple enough. Ahura Mazda--Ormuzd, as he has been
called since--was the one eternal Creator, the source of all light
and life and good. He spake his word, and it accomplished the
creation of heaven, before the water, before the earth, before the
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