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There May Be As Much Nobility In Being Last As In Being First, Because The Two Positions Are Equally Necessary In The World, The One To Complement The Other.

Man's Being Is Made Of Such Strange Stuff As To Be Partly Akin To Nature And Partly Not, At Once Natural And Extranatural, A Kind Of Ontological Centaur, Half Immersed In Nature, Half Transcending It.

This Leads Us To Note Down In Our Psychological Chart Of The Mass-man Of Today Two Fundamental Traits: The Free Expansion Of His Vital Desires, And, Therefore, Of His Personality; And His Radical Ingratitude Towards All That Has Made Possible The Ease Of His Existence. These Traits Together Make Up The Well-known Psychology Of The Spoilt Child.

Triumph Cannot Help Being Cruel.

The Assurance That We Have No Means Of Answering [final] Questions Is No Valid Excuse For Callousness Towards Them. The More Deeply Should We Feel, Down To The Roots Of Our Being, Their Pressure And Their Sting. Whose Hunger Has Ever Been [sated] With The Knowledge That He Could Not Eat?