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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt
Whitman would say, that you are any the less immortal for that?
The true materialism is to be ashamed of what we are. To detect
the flavour of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection than
to find beauty in the colours of the sunset.
Canoeing was easy work. To dip the paddle at the proper
inclination, now right, now left; to keep the head down stream; to
empty the little pool that gathered in the lap of the apron; to
screw up the eyes against the glittering sparkles of sun upon the
water; or now and again to pass below the whistling tow-rope of the
DEO GRATIAS of Conde, or the FOUR SONS OF AYMON - there was not
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