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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: I.
UNDER THE WHITE BIRCHES.
Men may say what they will in praise of their houses, and grow
eloquent upon the merits of various styles of architecture, but,
for our part, we are agreed that there is nothing to be compared
with a tent. It is the most venerable and aristocratic form of
human habitation. Abraham and Sarah lived in it, and shared its
hospitality with angels. It is exempt from the base tyranny of the
plumber, the paper-hanger, and the gas-man. It is not immovably
bound to one dull spot of earth by the chains of a cellar and a
system of water-pipes. It has a noble freedom of locomotion. It
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