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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a
thick wood, and the mouth which opened into the valley was closed
with gates of iron, forged by the artificers of ancient days, so
massive that no man, without the help of engines, could open or
shut them.
From the mountains on every side rivulets descended that filled all
the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the
middle, inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every
fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake
discharged its superfluities by a stream, which entered a dark
cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful
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