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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: windows begin to be darkened and restrained in sight. Thus the study
of nature should be carried forward thoroughly and with system.
Every gratification should be rolled long under the tongue, and we
should be always eager to analyse and compare, in order that we may
be able to give some plausible reason for our admirations. True, it
is difficult to put even approximately into words the kind of
feelings thus called into play. There is a dangerous vice inherent
in any such intellectual refining upon vague sensation. The analysis
of such satisfactions lends itself very readily to literary
affectations; and we can all think of instances where it has shown
itself apt to exercise a morbid influence, even upon an author's
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