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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: you complain of the bloodshed and the terror, think of the wrongs
which created my rights; think of the sacrifice by which I gave a
tenfold strength to those rights; think of the necessity for a
dreadful concussion and shock to society, in order to carry my
lesson into the councils of princes.
"This will now have been effected. And ye, victims of dishonor,
will be glorified in your deaths; ye will not have suffered in
vain, nor died without a monument. Sleep, therefore, sister
Berenice--sleep, gentle Mariamne, in peace. And thou, noble
mother, let the outrages sown in thy dishonor, rise again and
blossom in wide harvests of honor for the women of thy afflicted
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