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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Then Perseus put out all his strength, and hurled. But a
gust of wind came from the sea, and carried the quoit aside,
and far beyond all the rest; and it fell on the foot of
Acrisius, and he swooned away with the pain.
Perseus shrieked, and ran up to him; but when they lifted the
old man up he was dead, for his life was slow and feeble.
Then Perseus rent his clothes, and cast dust upon his head,
and wept a long while for his grandfather. At last he rose,
and called to all the people aloud, and said -
'The Gods are true, and what they have ordained must be. I
am Perseus, the grandson of this dead man, the far-famed
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