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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: with that seeming neglect which is after all the most provident
care, because by it alone can men be trained to experience, self-
help, science, true humanity; and so become not tolerably harmless
dolls, but men and women worthy of the name; with
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
The perfect spirit, nobly planned
To cheer, to counsel, and command.
Such seems to be the education and government appointed for man by
the voluntatem Dei in rebus revelatum, and the education, therefore,
which the man of science will accept and carry out. But the men of
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