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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: inexhaustible.
It was perhaps the consciousness of this, the knowledge that
I was being anointed already out of the vials of his wrath,
that made me fall to criticising the critic, whenever we had
parted.
After all, I thought, our satirist has just gone far enough
into his neighbours to find that the outside is false,
without caring to go farther and discover what is really
true. He is content to find that things are not what they
seem, and broadly generalises from it that they do not exist
at all. He sees our virtues are not what they pretend they
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