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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: intellect, madness; to virtue, cruelty; and to fair exteriors, bloody
entrails. These are Krag's actions, so the lovers of the world call
him 'devil.' They don't understand, Maskull, that without him the
world would lose its beauty."
"Krag and beauty!" exclaimed he, with a cynical smile.
"Even so. That same beauty which you and I are now voyaging to
discover. That beauty for whose sake I am renouncing husband,
children, and happiness.... Did you imagine beauty to be pleasant?"
"Surely."
"That pleasant beauty is an insipid compound of Shaping. To see
beauty in its terrible purity, you must tear away the pleasure from
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