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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: lay our whole lives to make money and be strictly decent.
Besides these holy injunctions, which form by far the greater
part of a youth's training in our Christian homes, there are
at least two other doctrines. We are to live just now as
well as we can, but scrape at last into heaven, where we
shall be good. We are to worry through the week in a lay,
disreputable way, but, to make matters square, live a
different life on Sunday.
The train of thought we have been following gives us a key to
all these positions, without stepping aside to justify them
on their own ground. It is because we have been disgusted
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