Word: presaw
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...During all this, the angels . . . merely looked on and watched . . . except that one-the splendid dark incorrigible one, who possessed the arrogance and pride to demand with, and the temerity to object with, and the ambition to substitute with ... So God even used the ambition. He already presaw the long roster of the ambition's ruthless avatars-Genghis and Caesar . . . and Stalin and Bonaparte and Huey Long...
...only used the ambition and the ruthlessness and the arrogance to show man what to revolt against, He used the temerity to revolt and the will to change what one does not like too. Because he presaw the long roster of the other avatars . . . the long annal of the men and women who have anguished over man's condition and who have held up to us not only the mirror of our follies and greeds and lusts and fears, but have reminded us constantly of the tremendous shape of our godhead too ... of our capacity for honor and courage...
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