who can according to steveson be called onward- looking men
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IT seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages
and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and
despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us.
And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the
one goal of man's contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance. We
live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless
series. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men, and although we dwell on a
small planet, immersed in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years, we
are so constituted that our hopes are inaccessible, like stars, and the term of hoping is
prolonged until the term of life. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of
how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a
possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives
us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually
rich. Life is only a very dull and ill- directed theatre unless we have some interests in the
piece; and to those who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of
colours, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins. It is in virtue of his
own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is
charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed
appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees
the world in the most enchanted colours: it is they that make women beautiful or fossils
interesting: and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these
two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. Suppose he could take one meal so
compact and comprehensive that he should never hunger any more; suppose him, at a glance,
to take in all the features of the world and allay the desire for knowledge; suppose him to do
the like in any province of experience - would not that man be in a poor way for amusement
ever after?
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It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us.
And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man's contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men, and although we dwell on a small planet, immersed in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years, we are so constituted that our hopes are inaccessible, like stars, and the term of hoping is prolonged until the term of life. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue.