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If my countrymen could fear God, serve God, would we not be able to revive the age of the sage emperors?
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The speaker asks whether the nation could return to an ideal age of wise and virtuous rulers if its people feared and served God. The question links religious devotion with the hope of restoring that better political and moral order.
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