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Will the skill in rowing, the swiftness in running, the admirable capacity and endurance in other physical exercises, which he has attained, by a strenuous cultivation in this kind that has excluded any similarly strenuous cultivation in other kinds--will these physical attainments help him to win a purely moral victory over his own selfishness and his own cruelty? It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfac- tions. |
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