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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: behoves that intelligence to grasp? What is their hope--their crown
of rejoicing? what manner of exhortation have they for us, or of
rebuke? what lies next their own hearts, and dictates their undying
words? Have they any peace to promise to our unrest--any redemption
to our misery?
Take Homer first, and think if there is any sadder image of human
fate than the great Homeric story. The main features in the
character of Achilles are its intense desire of justice, and its
tenderness of affection. And in that bitter song of the Iliad, this
man, though aided continually by the wisest of the gods, and burning
with the desire of justice in his heart, becomes yet, through ill-
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