nature; it must know, act, and suf-
fer by virtue of its deepest instincts.
The greater and richer that nature,
the deeper will be its need of see-
ing life on many sides, of sharing in
many kinds of experience, of con-
tending with multiform difficulties.
To drink deeply of the cup of life,
at whatever cost, appears to be the
insatiable desire of the most richly
endowed men and women; and with
such natures the impulse is to seek,
not to shun, experience. And that
which to the elect men and women
of the race is necessary and possible
is not only comprehensible to those
who cannot possess it: it is power-
fully and permanently attractive.
There is a spell in it which the dull-
est mortal does not wholly escape. [1]

[1] Reprinted in part, by permission,
from the "Forum."

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