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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the
vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to
let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order
of things, or projecting some plan for its improvement. And the
other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does
consist, after all, in the abundance of the things that he
possesses, and that it is somehow or other more respectable and
pious to be always at work making a larger living, than it is to
lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters,
and thank God that you are alive.
Come, then, my gentle reader, (for by this time you have discovered
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