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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it
may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my
constitution. Probably I should not conscientiously and
deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good
which society demands of me, to save the universe from
annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely
greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.
If you should ever be betrayed into any of these
philanthropies, do not let your left hand know what your
right hand does, for it is not worth knowing." Elsewhere he
returns upon the subject, and explains his meaning thus: "If
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