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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: is, by the scope of our present teaching, nothing is thought
very wrong and nothing very right, except a few actions which
have the disadvantage of being disrespectable when found out;
the more serious part of men inclining to think all things
RATHER WRONG, the more jovial to suppose them RIGHT ENOUGH
FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES. I will engage my head, they do not
find that view in their own hearts; they have taken it up in
a dark despair; they are but troubled sleepers talking in
their sleep. The soul, or my soul at least, thinks very
distinctly upon many points of right and wrong, and often
differs flatly with what is held out as the thought of
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