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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: is only in the fastnesses of nature, forests, mountains, and
the back of man's beyond, that a creature endowed with five
senses can grow up into the perfection of this crass and
earthy vanity. In towns or the busier country sides, he is
roughly reminded of other men's existence; and if he learns
no more, he learns at least to fear contempt. But Irvine had
come scatheless through life, conscious only of himself, of
his great strength and intelligence; and in the silence of
the universe, to which he did not listen, dwelling with
delight on the sound of his own thoughts.
THE SEA FOGS
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