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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: civilization costs--"
"Civilization costs all you've got!" I cried.
"More than I've got!" he declared. "I'm mortal tired of civilization."
"Ah, yes! What male creature is not? And neither of us will live quite
long enough to see the smash-up of our own."
"Aren't you sometimes inconsistent?" he inquired, laughing.
"I hope so," I returned. "Consistency is a form of death. The dead are
the only perfectly consistent people."
"And sometimes you sound like a Socialist," he pursued, still laughing.
"Never!" I shouted. "Don't class me with those untrained puppies of
thought. And you'll generally observe," I added, "that the more nobly a
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