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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: defend the white man, my flesh-brother? Shall we speak when one man is
wronged and not when it is another?'
"And she said, 'Yes, but you have your family and yourself to think of!
Why are you always in opposition to the people who could do something for
us? You are only loved by the poor. If it is necessary for you to attack
some one, why don't you attack the Jews for killing Christ, or Herod, or
Pontius Pilate; why don't you leave alone the men who are in power today,
and who with their money can crush you!'
"And he said, 'Oh my wife, those Jews, and Herod, and Pontius Pilate are
long dead. If I should preach of them now, would it help them? Would it
save one living thing from their clutches? The past is dead, it lives only
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