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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: In the Ear East, where difficulty of access is deemed indispensable
to dignity, the material approaches are still manifold and imposing.
Court within court, building after building, isolate the shrine
itself from the profane familiarity of the passers-by. But though
the material encasings vary in number and in exclusiveness,
according to the temperament of the particular race concerned, the
mental envelopes exist, and must exist, in both hemispheres alike,
so long as society resembles the crust of the earth on which it
dwells,--a crust composed of strata that grow denser as one
descends. What is clear to those on top seems obscure to those
below; what are weighty arguments to the second have no force at all
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