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The birthright being lost is the inner core from which judgment can be made, the knowledge of what it is to be a person.

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Birthright
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The innate human ability to perceive living structure and to know what is right or beautiful; the inner voice that is being lost.

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Is there some chance — now that these matters have been brought into the open — that this birthright may be saved, and that we can come back to what is ours again?
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Asked at the end of section 4, as a reflection on hope.

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