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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: still, dark pool, and watching the ripples that rise responsive,
as they run in ever widening circles to the shore. Most of us have
felt its fascination second only to that of the dotted spiral of the
skipping-stone, a fascination not outgrown with years. There is
something singularly attractive in the subtle force that for a
moment sways each particle only to pass on to the next, a motion
mysterious in its immateriality. Some such pleasure must be theirs
who have thrown their thoughts into the hearts of men, and seen them
spread in waves of feeling, whose sphere time widens through the
world. For like the mobile water is the mind of man,--quick to
catch emotions, quick to transmit them. Of all waves of feeling,
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