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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: it; and knew, too, that his cousin did him an injustice. "He used
to undervalue me," said he to himself; "let us see whether he does
not find me a match for him now." And then went off into an agony
of secret contrition for his self-seeking and his forgetting that
"the glory of God, and not his own exaltation," was the object of
his existence.
There, dear readers, Ex pede Herculem; I cannot tire myself or you
(especially in this book) with any wire-drawn soul-dissections. I
have tried to hint to you two opposite sorts of men,--the one
trying to be good with all his might and main, according to certain
approved methods and rules, which he has got by heart, and like a
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