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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: The war drove home a lesson that will forever make false
education hateful to me. Education in the wrong direction can
destroy a nation and wreck the happiness of the world. The German
worker was taught that he would get rich, not by patient toil,
but by taking by force the wealth that others had created.
On my return from France, where I had witnessed the Hindenburg
drive into the heart of France, I addressed the Iron Workers in
their national convention. "I am glad," I said, "that I was born
an iron worker and not a Chancellor of Blood and Iron. For the
iron I wrought has helped build up a civilization, while the
German's 'Blood and Iron' has sought to destroy it.
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