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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: comprehensible. In itself, it is a great and travailing
ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man;
or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain,
one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we
can dimly study with these mortal eyes. But what any man can
say of it, even in his highest utterance, must have relation
to this little and plain corner, which is no less visible to
us than to him. We are looking on the same map; it will go
hard if we cannot follow the demonstration. The longest and
most abstruse flight of a philosopher becomes clear and
shallow, in the flash of a moment, when we suddenly perceive
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