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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: to its ideal of the ant-heap, ruled with iron justice, the
number of new contraventions will be out of all proportion
multiplied. Take the case of work alone. Man is an idle
animal. He is at least as intelligent as the ant; but
generations of advisers have in vain recommended him the
ant's example. Of those who are found truly indefatigable in
business, some are misers; some are the practisers of
delightful industries, like gardening; some are students,
artists, inventors, or discoverers, men lured forward by
successive hopes; and the rest are those who live by games of
skill or hazard - financiers, billiard-players, gamblers, and
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