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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: Anahuac. They did evil that good might come. They sacrificed the
lives of thousands to their false gods, that their wealth might
increase, and peace and prosperity be theirs throughout the
generations. And now the true God has answered them. For wealth
He has given them desolation, for peace the sword of the Spaniard,
for prosperity the rack and the torment and the day of slavery.
For this it was that they did sacrifice, offering their own
children on the altars of Huitzel and of Tezcat.
And the Spaniards themselves, who in the name of mercy have wrought
cruelties greater than any that were done by the benighted Aztecs,
who in the name of Christ daily violate His law to the uttermost
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