Which quotation most accurately reflects a central theme of the passage? "The boy was a full man before he ever knew what was meant by atmosphere; his idea of pleasure in light was the blaze of a New England sun." (sentence 15)
"The New England light is glare, and the atmosphere harshens color." (sentence 14)
"The violence of the contrast was real and made the strongest motive of education." (sentence 2)
"Winter and summer, cold and heat, town and country, force and freedom, marked two modes of life and thought, balanced like lobes of the brain." (sentence 4)
"With such standards, the Bostonian could not but develop a double nature. Life was a double thing." (sentences 19−20)