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Chapter XIII
VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease. Can it do it? In large measure, yes. How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations? Four-fifths?
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.”
To recall to mind.
From this reading “VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?”
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading “How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?”
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Can it do it?
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Can it do it?
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From this reading Four-fifths?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In large measure, yes.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Can it do it?
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
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From this reading In large measure, yes.
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From this reading In large measure, yes.
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
To recall to mind.
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading VII Remember its principal great offer: to rid the Race of pain and disease.
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From this reading How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
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From this reading In large measure, yes.
