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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: so you may judge of his surprise when, resting his arms on the sunlit
balustrade and looking over into the PLACE far below him, he saw the
good people holding on their hats and leaning hard against the wind
as they walked. There is something, to my fancy, quite perfect in
this little experience of my fellow-traveller's. The ways of men
seem always very trivial to us when we find ourselves alone on a
church-top, with the blue sky and a few tall pinnacles, and see far
below us the steep roofs and foreshortened buttresses, and the silent
activity of the city streets; but how much more must they not have
seemed so to him as he stood, not only above other men's business,
but above other men's climate, in a golden zone like Apollo's!
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