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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: theory. If I did, I could not be a Christian, I think, nor a
philosopher either. At least, if I thought that human civilisation
had sprung from such a dunghill as that, I should, in honour to my
race, say nothing about it, here or elsewhere.
Why talk of the shame of our ancestors? I want to talk of their
honour and glory. I want to talk, if I talk at all, about great
times, about noble epochs, noble movements, noble deeds, and noble
folk; about times in which the human race--it may be through many
mistakes, alas! and sin, and sorrow, and blood-shed--struggled up
one step higher on those great stairs which, as we hope, lead upward
towards the far-off city of God; the perfect polity, the perfect
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