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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: field of politics, leans to practical reform. When the
missionaries came, professing a knowledge of the truth, he readily
received them; attended their worship, acquired the accomplishment
of public prayer, and made himself a student at their feet. It is
thus - it is by the cultivation of similar passing chances - that
he has learned to read, to write, to cipher, and to speak his
queer, personal English, so different from ordinary 'Beach de Mar,'
so much more obscure, expressive, and condensed. His education
attended to, he found time to become critical of the new inmates.
Like Nakaeia of Makin, he is an admirer of silence in the island;
broods over it like a great ear; has spies who report daily; and
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