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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: reason was overwhelmed.
When I recovered consciousness, the day was come. I was
unhurt; the trees close about me had not lost a bough; and I
might have thought at first that the tornado was a feature in
a dream. It was otherwise indeed; for when I looked abroad,
I perceived I had escaped destruction by a hand's-breadth.
Right through the forest, which here covered hill and dale,
the storm had ploughed a lane of ruin. On either hand, the
trees waved uninjured in the air of the morning; but in the
forthright course of its advance, the hurricane had left no
trophy standing. Everything, in that line, tree, man, or
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