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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: learned Mr. Hakluyt hath so painfully collected, and which are to
my old age next only to my Bible, whether in all the fights which
we have endured with the Spaniards, their loss, even in victory,
hath not far exceeded ours. For we are both bigger of body and
fiercer of spirit, being even to the poorest of us (thanks so the
care of our illustrious princes), the best fed men of Europe, the
most trained to feats of strength and use of weapons, and put our
trust also not in any Virgin or saints, dead rags and bones,
painted idols which have no breath in their mouths, or St.
Bartholomew medals and such devil's remembrancers; but in the only
true God and our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom whosoever trusteth, one
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