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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: into arches of massive stone, joined by a cement that grew harder
by time, and the building stood from century to century, deriding
the solstitial rains and equinoctial hurricanes, without need of
reparation.
This house, which was so large as to be fully known to none but
some ancient officers, who successively inherited the secrets of
the place, was built as if Suspicion herself had dictated the plan.
To every room there was an open and secret passage; every square
had a communication with the rest, either from the upper storeys by
private galleries, or by subterraneous passages from the lower
apartments. Many of the columns had unsuspected cavities, in which
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