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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: found the form most natural to his talent. In some ways,
indeed, it may be held inferior to CHRONICLES AND CHARACTERS;
we look in vain for anything like the terrible intensity of
the night-scene in IRENE, or for any such passages of massive
and memorable writing as appeared, here and there, in the
earlier work, and made it not altogether unworthy of its
model, Hugo's LEGEND OF THE AGES. But it becomes evident, on
the most hasty retrospect, that this earlier work was a step
on the way towards the later. It seems as if the author had
been feeling about for his definite medium, and was already,
in the language of the child's game, growing hot. There are
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