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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: come. I know that you do not believe, and the first victory of
this new day of mine shall be to make you believe. I have great
powers and you shall see them at work, and afterwards, if things
go right, rule with me for a little while, perhaps, as the first
of my subjects. Hearken now; in one small matter my calculations,
made so long ago, have gone wrong. They showed me that at this
time a day of earthquakes, such as those that again and again
have rocked and split the world, would recur. But now it seems
that there is an error, a tiny error of eleven hundred years,
which must go by before those earthquakes come."
"Are you sure," I suggested humbly, "that there is not also an
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