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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Orient," with Philippe Egalite, Duc de Chartres, as their grand
master, and as his representative, the hero of the diamond necklace,
and disciple of Count Cagliostro--Louis, Prince de Rohan.
But if Freemasonry, among the frivolous and sensual French noblesse,
became utterly frivolous and sensual itself, it took a deeper,
though a questionably fantastic form, among the more serious and
earnest German nobility. Forgetful as they too often were of their
duty to their peoples--tyrannical, extravagant, debauched by French
opinions, French fashions, French luxuries, till they had begun to
despise their native speech, their native literature, almost their
native land, and to hide their native homeliness under a clumsy
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