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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: inadequate. For though it is possibly true that a man, if left
alone in a Robinson Crusoe life on a desert island, might
ultimately subside into a mere gratification of his corporeal
needs and of those mental needs which were directly concerned
with the body, yet we know that such a case would by no means be
representative. On the contrary we know that vast numbers of
people spend their lives in considering other people, and often
so far as to sacrifice their own bodily and mental comfort and
well-being. The mother spends her life thinking almost day
and night about her babe and the other children--spending
all her thoughts and efforts on them. You may call her selfish
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