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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: Persians we owe that we are here to-night?
I do not say that without them we should not have been here. God, I
presume, when He is minded to do anything, has more than one way of
doing it.
But that we are now the last link in a chain of causes and effects
which reaches as far back as the emigration of the Persians
southward from the plateau of Pamir, we cannot doubt.
For see. By the fall of Babylon and its empire the Jews were freed
from their captivity--large numbers of them at least--and sent home
to their own Jerusalem. What motives prompted Cyrus, and Darius
after him, to do that deed?
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