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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: acceptance of the universe. Here is a farrago for a chapter: here
is a world of interests and activities, human, artistic, social,
scientific, at each of which he sprang with impetuous pleasure, on
each of which he squandered energy, the arrow drawn to the head,
the whole intensity of his spirit bent, for the moment, on the
momentary purpose. It was this that lent such unusual interest to
his society, so that no friend of his can forget that figure of
Fleeming coming charged with some new discovery: it is this that
makes his character so difficult to represent. Our fathers, upon
some difficult theme, would invoke the Muse; I can but appeal to
the imagination of the reader. When I dwell upon some one thing,
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