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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: workmen fellow-passengers; but most of it was hot and turgid, and
fell discredited from the lips of unsuccessful men. This man was
calm; he had attained prosperity and ease; he disapproved the policy
which had been pursued by labour in the past; and yet this was his
panacea, - to rend the old country from end to end, and from top to
bottom, and in clamour and civil discord remodel it with the hand of
violence.
THE STOWAWAYS
On the Sunday, among a party of men who were talking in our
companion, Steerage No. 2 and 3, we remarked a new figure. He wore
tweed clothes, well enough made if not very fresh, and a plain
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