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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: every man would now be satisfied of the propriety of embracing
all opportunities of landing on the rock when the state of the
weather would permit. The writer further took them to witness
that it did not proceed from want of respect for the
appointments and established forms of religion that he had
himself adopted the resolution of attending the Bell Rock
works on the Sunday; but, as he hoped, from a conviction that
it was his bounden duty, on the strictest principles of
morality. At the same time it was intimated that, if any were
of a different opinion, they should be perfectly at liberty to
hold their sentiments without the imputation of contumacy or
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