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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: pre-occupation; they must search all round and upon every
side, and grope for some central conception which is to
explain and justify the most extreme details; until that is
found, the politician is an enigma, or perhaps a quack, and
the part a tissue of fustian sentiment and big words; but
once that is found, all enters into a plan, a human nature
appears, the politician or the stage-king is understood from
point to point, from end to end. This is a degree of trouble
which will be gladly taken by a very humble artist; but not
even the terror of eternal fire can teach a business man to
bend his imagination to such athletic efforts. Yet without
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