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„The work of life is the mystery clothed in the spirit of humility when it comes up to Me from man, and the man exalts then the one who becomes his way to Me, and behold, the man, loving of God, is that one who lifts his neighbor up to Me, not to himself, and the one who works that way fulfills as I have told the man to follow Me, for I said this: «Whoever wants to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me». (Mark. 8:34) ”

Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, came from a line of Danish descent and was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet.[2] He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his older brothers who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School.[3] This was because[4] his