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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: man of heresy - a company of determined, deliberate
opinionists, not to be moved by all the sleights of logic.
What have such men to do with study? If their minds are made
up irrevocably, why burn the 'studious lamp' in search of
further confirmation? Every set opinion I hear a student
deliver I feel a certain lowering of my regard. He who
studies, he who is yet employed in groping for his premises,
should keep his mind fluent and sensitive, keen to mark
flaws, and willing to surrender untenable positions. He
should keep himself teachable, or cease the expensive farce
of being taught. It is to further this docile spirit that we
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