I Am Astonished At The Singular Pertinacity And Endurance Of Our
Lives.
The miracle is, that what is _is_, when it is so
difficult, if not impossible, for anything else to
Be; that we
walk on in our particular paths so far, before we fall on death
and fate, merely because we must walk in some path; that every
man can get a living, and so few can do anything more. So much
only can I accomplish ere health and strength are gone, and yet
this suffices. The bird now sits just out of gunshot. I am
never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor. If debts are
incurred, why, debts are in the course of events cancelled, as it
were by the same law by which they were incurred. I heard that
an engagement was entered into between a certain youth and a
maiden, and then I heard that it was broken off, but I did not
know the reason in either case. We are hedged about, we think,
by accident and circumstance, now we creep as in a dream, and now
again we run, as if there were a fate in it, and all things
thwarted or assisted. I cannot change my clothes but when I do,
and yet I do change them, and soil the new ones. It is wonderful
that this gets done, when some admirable deeds which I could
mention do not get done. Our particular lives seem of such
fortune and confident strength and durability as piers of solid
rock thrown forward into the tide of circumstance.
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