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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: in the town about the time of his arrival there; its members being
young men of all creeds and denominations, including Churchmen,
Congregationalists, Baptists, Unitarians, Positivists, and others--
agnostics had scarcely been heard of at this time--their one
common wish to enlarge their minds forming a sufficiently close
bond of union. The subscription was small, and the room homely;
and Jude's activity, uncustomary acquirements, and above all,
singular intuition on what to read and how to set about it--
begotten of his years of struggle against malignant stars--had led
to his being placed on the committee.
A few evenings after his dismissal from the church repairs,
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