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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: between two thoughts. His life is centred among other and
more important considerations; touch him in his honour or his
love, creatures of the imagination which attach him to
mankind or to an individual man or woman; cross him in his
piety which connects his soul with heaven; and he turns from
his food, he loathes his breath, and with a magnanimous
emotion cuts the knots of his existence and frees himself at
a blow from the web of pains and pleasures.
It follows that man is twofold at least; that he is not a
rounded and autonomous empire; but that in the same body with
him there dwell other powers tributary but independent. If I
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