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"And the saving of a human life-is it a good deed or an evil one?"
"How can that be anything but good?" answered his opponent in a subdued tone.
"Then what sin have I committed if I used the holy thread to do a good deed?" he demanded.
None could answer the challenge; even the orthodox among them seemed to be stirred from their age-old slumber of superstition and inwardly bowed to the logic of the youth.
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