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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: apt to remain a peevish, narrow, and intolerant bigot.
Dilettante is now a term of reproach; but there is a certain
form of dilettantism to which no one can object. It is this
that we want among our students. We wish them to abandon no
subject until they have seen and felt its merit - to act
under a general interest in all branches of knowledge, not a
commercial eagerness to excel in one.
In both these directions our sympathies are constipated. We
are apostles of our own caste and our own subject of study,
instead of being, as we should, true men and LOVING students.
Of course both of these could be corrected by the students
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