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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: Round him were some ancient councillors. In the body of the hall
on either side of the dais were men in military array, guards
without doubt though their only weapon was a black rod not unlike
a ruler, if indeed it were a weapon and not a badge of office.
Yva, whose face had suddenly grown strange and fixed, began to
detail to us what was passing in this scene, in a curious
monotone such as a person might use who was repeating something
learned by heart. This was the substance of what she said:
"The case of the Sons of Wisdom is desperate. But few of them
are left. Like other men they need food which is hard to come by,
since the foe holds the upper earth and that which their doctors
When the World Shook | 
