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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: words of an unverified quotation from the Scotch psalms, you feel
yourself fit 'on the wings of all the winds' to 'come flying all
abroad.' Europe and your mind are too narrow for that flood of
energy. Yet it is notable that you are hard to root out of your bed;
that you start forth, singing, indeed, on your walk, yet are
unusually ready to turn home again; that the best of you is volatile;
and that although the restlessness remains till night, the strength
is early at an end. With all these heady jollities, you are half
conscious of an underlying languor in the body; you prove not to be
so well as you had fancied; you weary before you have well begun; and
though you mount at morning with the lark, that is not precisely a
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