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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: illuminated by the sun, digesting his food with elaborate
chemistry, breathing, circulating blood, directing himself by
the sight of his eyes, accommodating his body by a thousand
delicate balancings to the wind and the uneven surface of the
path, and all the time, perhaps, with his mind engaged about
America, or the dog-star, or the attributes of God - what am
I to say, or how am I to describe the thing I see? Is that
truly a man, in the rigorous meaning of the word? or is it
not a man and something else? What, then, are we to count
the centre-bit and axle of a being so variously compounded?
It is a question much debated. Some read his history in a
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