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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: the command of a nice little barque, may be made
a delusion and a snare for the unwary spirit of
pride in man.
From such reflections I was glad to make any es-
cape on board that Bremen Diana. There appar-
ently no whisper of the world's iniquities had ever
penetrated. And yet she lived upon the wide sea:
and the sea tragic and comic, the sea with its horrors
and its peculiar scandals, the sea peopled by men
and ruled by iron necessity is indubitably a part of
the world. But that patriarchal old tub, like some
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