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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: and there is the sun going down into the Highland hills.
You look down an alley, and see ships tacking for the
Baltic.
For the country people to see Edinburgh on her hill-
tops, is one thing; it is another for the citizen, from
the thick of his affairs, to overlook the country. It
should be a genial and ameliorating influence in life; it
should prompt good thoughts and remind him of Nature's
unconcern: that he can watch from day to day, as he trots
officeward, how the Spring green brightens in the wood or
the field grows black under a moving ploughshare. I have
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