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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: quite different from any that can be drawn from Oriental life,
but almost equally contrasted with any that can be found among
ourselves; and let us, with the aid of it, examine the respective
effects of leisure and of hurry upon the culture of the
community.
What do modern critics mean by the "healthy completeness" of
ancient life, which they are so fond of contrasting with the
"heated," "discontented," or imperfect and one-sided existence of
modern communities? Is this a mere set of phrases, suited to some
imaginary want of the literary critic, but answering to nothing
real? Are they to be summarily disposed of as resting upon some
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