>>26878523Now, in the face of all these common and everyday facts of experience, it would be both absurd and unjustifiable to claim that any person, of any sex, age, or talent, could hope to spend years or decades of his life after reaching his loftiest dream with nothing left to pursue — not to mention a lifetime — without eventually and ultimately falling into the prey to indifference, if not disgust, and where the circumstances of their first steps towards this achievement bore an excessive warmth of feeling, the ultimate spurning of that feeling, by disillusionment and, among ignorant and foolish people, a surprise, must lead to an acute indifference to life and its joys.
Unlike the mere chasing and capturing of bodily necessities, in which the body and mind work together, share the same needs and interests, enjoy the same leisure and games, develop the same novel and greater desires and wants, or suffer the same pleasures and difficulties, the pursuit of a goal to end all goals is united chiefly by a rigid bond between mind and spirit which has its basis in the emotion and inner feelings of passion, a feeling of desire, and a feeling of power.
