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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: Last Judgment, as the mediaeval mind conceived it. It is an
even fuller exposition than the carved Bible history that
goes round the chapter house at Salisbury. It presented the
universe, said Sir Richmond, as a complete crystal globe. It
explained everything in life in a simple and natural manner,
hope, heaven, devil and despair. Generations had lived and
died mentally within that crystal globe, convinced that it
was all and complete.
"And now," said Miss Grammont, "we are in limitless space and
time. The crystal globe is broken."
"And?" said Belinda amazingly--for she had been silent for
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