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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Indians have done, off the face of the earth. They lived these
Norsemen, not to live--they lived to die. For what cared they?
Death--what was death to them? what it was to the Jomsburger Viking,
who, when led out to execution, said to the headsman: "Die! with
all pleasure. We used to question in Jomsburg whether a man felt
when his head was off? Now I shall know; but if I do, take care,
for I shall smite thee with my knife. And meanwhile, spoil not this
long hair of mine; it is so beautiful."
But, oh! what waste! What might not these men have done if they had
sought peace, not war; if they had learned a few centuries sooner to
do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with their God?
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