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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: affinity for individual men equal and reciprocal to that
which men certainly feel toward individual umbrellas - we
took the trouble of consulting a scientific friend as to
whether there was any possible physical explanation of the
phenomenon. He was unable to supply a plausible theory, or
even hypothesis; but we extract from his letter the following
interesting passage relative to the physical peculiarities of
umbrellas: 'Not the least important, and by far the most
curious property of the umbrella, is the energy which it
displays in affecting the atmospheric strata. There is no
fact in meteorology better established - indeed, it is almost
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