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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: time, giving us a succession of pleasant though somewhat
threadbare anecdotes, as well as a superabundance of detached and
fragmentary opinions on divers historical events, having
apparently quite forgotten that he had started with a thesis to
prove. In the arrangement of his "running heads," some points
were sufficiently curious to require a word of explanation, as,
for example, when the early ages of Christianity were at one time
labelled as an epoch of progress and at another time as an epoch
of decrepitude. But the argument and the contents never got so
far en rapport with each other as to clear up such points as
this. On the contrary, each kept on the even tenour of its way
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