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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: hunting out its evil. I have chosen, not the worst, but the best
despotism which I could find in history, founded and ruled by a
truly heroic personage, one whose name has become a proverb and a
legend, that so I might lift up your minds, even by the
contemplation of an old Eastern empire, to see that it, too, could
be a work and ordinance of God, and its hero the servant of the
Lord. For we are almost bound to call Cyrus, the founder of the
Persian Empire, by this august title for two reasons--First, because
the Hebrew Scriptures call him so; the next, because he proved
himself to be such by his actions and their consequences--at least
in the eyes of those who believe, as I do, in a far-seeing and far-
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