Optimism Is The True Moral

Men Wanted For Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages For Long Hours Of Arduous Labour Under Brutal Conditions; Months Of Continual Darkness And Extreme Cold; Great Risk To Life And Limb From Disease, Accidents And Other Hazards; Small Chance Of Fame In Case Of Success.

No Person Who Has Not Spent A Period Of His Life In Those 'stark And Sullen Solitudes That Sentinel The Pole' Will Understand Fully What Trees And Flowers, Sun-flecked Turf And Running Streams Mean To The Soul Of A Man

One Feels 'the Dearth Of Human Words, The Roughness Of Mortal Speech' In Trying To Describe Things Intangible.

The Noise Resembles The Roar Of Heavy, Distant Surf. Standing On The Stirring Ice One Can Imagine It Is Disturbed By The Breathing And Tossing Of A Mighty Giant Below.

Optimism Is True Moral Courage.