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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: least keep his place vacant, and lastly those who have set up a
Church in his place. That is the last outrage of unbelief."
IV. THE RIDDLE OF THE BRITISH
All the French people I met in France seemed to be thinking and
talking about the English. The English bring their own
atmosphere with them; to begin with they are not so talkative,
and I did not find among them anything like the same vigour of
examination, the same resolve to understand the Anglo-French
reaction, that I found among the French. In intellectual
processes I will confess that my sympathies are undisguisedly
with the French; the English will never think nor talk clearly
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