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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: Idealism is one of those large abstractions
which are invested by various minds with varying
shades of meaning, and which find expression in
an infinite number of forms. Ideals bred and fos-
tered in the heart of man receive at birth an im-
press from the life that engenders them, and when
that life is tempest-tossed the thought that springs
from it must bear a birth-mark of the storm.
That birth-mark is stamped on all Tolstoy's utter-
ances, the simplest and the most metaphysical.
But though he did not pass scathless through the
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