,illustration          ,when a ,man     
,comes to ,himself    by ,woodrow       
,wilson  ,ph4,d41 ,litt4,d41 ,,ll4,d4   
,president of the ,united ,states       
#aija4      ,contents     ,i4   ,,ii4   
,,iii4   ,,iv4   ,v4   ,,vi4          ,i
      ,it is a very wholesome and       
regenerating change which a man         
undergoes  when he 8comes to himself40  
,it is not only after periods of        
recklessness or infatuation1 when he has
 played the spendthrift or the  fool1   
that a man comes to himself4 ,he comes  
to himself after  experiences of which  
he alone may be aware3 when he has left 
off being  wholly preoccupied with his  
own powers and interests and with every 
petty plan that centers in himself2 when
 he has cleared his eyes to see  the    
world as it is1 and his own true place  
and function in it4    ,it is a process 
of disillusionment4 ,the scales have    
fallen away4 ,he  sees himself soberly1 
and knows under what conditions his     
powers must  act1 as well as what his   

powers are4 ,he has got rid of earlier  
prepossessions about the world of men   
and affairs1 both those which  were too 
favorable and those which were too      
unfavorable--both those of  the nursery 
and those of a young man's reading4 ,he 
has learned his own  paces1 or1 at any  
rate1 is in a fair way to learn them2   
has found his  footing and the true     
nature of the 8going0 he must look for  
in the  world2 over what sorts of roads 
he must expect to make his running1 and 
at what expenditure of effort2 whither  
his goal lies1 and what cheer he  may   
expect by the way4 ,it is a process of  
disillusionment1 but it  disheartens no 
soundly made man4 ,it brings him into a 
light which  guides instead of deceiving
 him2 a light which does not make the   
way  look cold to any man whose eyes are
 fit for use in the open1 but which     
shines wholesomely1 rather upon the     
obvious path1 like the honest rays  of  
the frank sun1 and makes traveling both 
safe and cheerful4          ,,ii        

,there is no fixed time in a man's life 
at which he comes to himself1  and some 
men never come to themselves at all4 ,it
 is a change reserved  for the          
thoroughly sane and healthy1 and for    
those who can detach  themselves from   
tasks and drudgery long and often enough
 to get1 at any  rate once and again1 a 
view of the proportions of life and of  
the stage  and plot of its action4 ,we  
speak often with amusement1 sometimes   
with  distaste and uneasiness1 of men   
who 8have no sense of humor10 who take  
themselves too seriously1 who are       
intense1 self-absorbed1  over-confident 
in matters of opinion1 or else go plumed
 with conceit1  proud of we cannot tell 
what1 enjoying1 appreciating1 thinking  
of  nothing so much as themselves4      
,these are men who have not suffered    
that  wholesome change4 ,they have not  
come to themselves4 ,if they be serious 
men1 and real forces in the world1 we   
may conclude that they have been  too   
much and too long absorbed2 that their  

tasks and responsibilities  long ago    
rose about them like a flood1 and have  
kept them swimming with  sturdy stroke  
the years through1 their eyes level with
 the troubled  surface--no horizon in   
sight1 no passing fleets1 no comrades   
but those  who struggled in the flood   
like themselves4 ,if they be frivolous1 
light-headed men without purpose or     
achievement1 we may conjecture1 if  we  
do not know1 that they were born so1 or 
spoiled by fortune1 or  befuddled by    
self-indulgence4 ,it is no great matter 
what we think of  them4    ,it is enough
 to know that there are some laws which 
govern a man's  awakening to know       
himself and the right part to play4 ,a  
man is the  part he plays among his     
fellows4 ,he is not isolated2 he cannot 
be4 ,his  life is made up of the        
relations he bears to others--is made or
 marred  by those relations1 guided by  
them1 judged by them1 expressed in them4
  ,there is nothing else upon which he  
can spend his spirit--nothing else  that

 we can see4 ,it is by these he gets his
 spiritual growth2 it is by  these we   
see his character revealed1 his purpose 
and his gifts4 ,some  play with a       
certain natural passion1 an unstudied   
directness1 without  grace1 without     
modulation1 with no study of the masters
 or  consciousness of the pervading     
spirit of the plot2 others give all     
their thought to their costume and think
 only of the audience2 a few  act as    
those who have mastered the secrets of a
 serious art1 with  deliberate          
subordination of themselves to the great
 end and motive of  the play1 spending  
themselves like good servants1 indulging
 no  wilfulness1 obtruding no           
eccentricity1 lending heart and tone and
  gesture to the perfect progress of the
 action4 ,these have 8found             
themselves10 and have all the ease of a 
perfect adjustment4    ,adjustment is   
exactly what a man gains when he comes  
to himself4 ,some  men gain it late1    
some early2 some get it all at once1 as 

if by one  distinct act of deliberate   
accommodation2 others get it by degrees 
and  quite imperceptibly4 ,no doubt to  
most men it comes by slow processes of  
experience--at each stage of life a     
little4 ,a college man feels the  first 
shock of it at graduation1 when the     
boy's life has been lived out  and the  
man's life suddenly begins4 ,he has     
measured himself with boys2  he knows   
their code and feels the spur of their  
ideals of achievement4  ,but what the   
world expects of him he has yet to find 
out1 and it works1  when he has         
discovered1 a veritable revolution in   
his ways both of  thought and of action4
 ,he finds a new sort of fitness        
demanded of him1  executive1            
thorough-going1 careful of details1 full
 of drudgery and  obedience to orders4  
,everybody is ahead of him4 ,just now he
 was a  senior1 at the top of the world 
he knows and reigned in1 a finished     
product and pattern of good form4 ,of a 
sudden he is a novice again1 as  green  

as in his first school year1 studying a 
thing that seems to have  no rules--at  
sea amid crosswinds1 and a bit seasick  
withal4 ,presently1  if he be made of   
stuff that will shake into shape and    
fitness1 he  settles to his tasks and is
 comfortable4 ,he has come to himself3  
understands what capacity is1 and what  
it is meant for2 sees that his  training
 was not for ornament or personal       
gratification1 but to teach  him how to 
use himself and develop faculties worth 
using4 ,henceforth  there is a zest in  
action1 and he loves to see his strokes 
tell4    ,the same thing happens to the 
lad come from the farm into the city1 a 
big and novel field1 where crowds rush  
and jostle1 and a rustic boy  must stand
 puzzled for a little how to use his    
placid and unjaded  strength4 ,it       
happens1 too1 though in a deeper and    
more subtle way1 to  the man who marries
 for love1 if the love be true and fit  
for foul  weather4 ,mr4 ,bagehot used to
 say that a bachelor was 8an amateur at 

life10 and wit and wisdom are married in
 the jest4 ,a man who lives only  for   
himself has not begun to live--has yet  
to learn his use1 and his  real         
pleasure1 too1 in the world4 ,it is not 
necessary he should marry  to find      
himself out1 but it is necessary he     
should love4 ,men have come  to         
themselves serving their mothers with an
 unselfish devotion1 or  their sisters1 
or a cause for whose sake they forsook  
ease and left off  thinking of          
themselves4 ,it is unselfish action1    
growing slowly into the  high habit of  
devotion1 and at last1 it may be1 into a
 sort of  consecration1 that teaches a  
man the wide meaning of his life1 and   
makes of him a steady professional in   
living1 if the motive be not  necessity1
 but love4 ,necessity may make a mere   
drudge of a man1 and no  mere drudge    
ever made a professional of himself2    
that demands a higher  spirit and a     
finer incentive than his4          ,,iii
      ,surely a man has come to himself 

only when he has found the best that  is
 in him1 and has satisfied his heart    
with the highest achievement he  is fit 
for4 ,it is only then that he knows of  
what he is capable and  what his heart  
demands4 ,and1 assuredly1 no thoughtful 
man ever came to  the end of his life1  
and had time and a little space of calm 
from which  to look back upon it1 who   
did not know and acknowledge that it was
 what  he had done unselfishly and for  
others1 and nothing else1 that          
satisfied him in the retrospect1 and    
made him feel that he had played  the   
man4 ,that alone seems to him the real  
measure of himself1 the real  standard  
of his manhood4 ,and so men grow by     
having responsibility laid  upon them1  
the burden of other people's business4  
,their powers are put  out at interest1 
and they get usury in kind4 ,they are   
like men  multiplied4 ,each counts      
manifold4 ,men who live with an eye only
 upon  what is their own are dwarfed    
beside them--seem fractions while they  

are  integers4 ,the trustworthiness of  
men trusted seems often to grow with    
the trust4    ,it is for this reason    
that men are in love with power and     
greatness3 it  affords them so          
pleasurable an expansion of faculty1 so 
large a run for  their minds1 an        
exercise of spirit so various and       
refreshing2 they have  the freedom of so
 wide a tract of the world of affairs4  
,but if they use  power only for their  
own ends1 if there be no unselfish      
service in it1  if its object be only   
their personal aggrandizement1 their    
love to see  other men tools in their   
hands1 they go out of the world small1  
disquieted1 beggared1 no enlargement of 
soul vouchsafed them1 no usury  of      
satisfaction4 ,they have added nothing  
to themselves4 ,mental and  physical    
powers alike grow by use1 as every one  
knows2 but labor for  oneself is like   
exercise in a gymnasium4 ,no healthy man
 can remain  satisfied with it1 or      
regard it as anything but a preparation 

for tasks  in the open1 amid the affairs
 of the world--not sport1 but           
business--where there is no orderly     
apparatus1 and every man must devise    
the means by which he is to make the    
most of himself4 ,to make the most  of  
himself means the multiplication of his 
activities1 and he must turn  away from 
himself for that4 ,he looks about him1  
studies the facts of  business or of    
affairs1 catches some intimation of     
their larger  objects1 is guided by the 
intimation1 and presently finds himself 
part  of the motive force of communities
 or of nations4 ,it makes no  difference
 how small a part1 how insignificant1   
how unnoticed4 ,when his  powers begin  
to play outward1 and he loves the task  
at hand1 not  because it gains him a    
livelihood1 but because it makes him a  
life1 he  has come to himself4          
,necessity is no mother to enthusiasm4  
,necessity carries a whip4 ,its  method 
is compulsion1 not love4 ,it has no     
thought to make itself  attractive2 it  

is content to drive4 ,enthusiasm comes  
with the  revelation of true and        
satisfying objects of devotion2 and it  
is  enthusiasm that sets the powers     
free4 ,it is a sort of enlightenment4   
,it  shines straight upon ideals1 and   
for those who see it the race and       
struggle are henceforth toward these4   
,an instance will point the  meaning4   
,one of the most distinguished and most 
justly honored of our  great            
philanthropists spent the major part of 
his life absolutely  absorbed in the    
making of money--so it seemed to those  
who did not know  him4 ,in fact1 he had 
very early passed the stage at which he 
looked  upon his business as a means of 
support or of material comfort4         
,business had become for him an         
intellectual pursuit1 a study in        
enterprise and increment4 ,the field of 
commerce lay before him like a          
chess-board2 the moves interested him   
like the manoeuvers of a game4  ,more   
money was more power1 a great advantage 

in the game1 the means of  shaping men  
and events and markets to his own ends  
and uses4 ,it was his  will that set    
fleets afloat and determined the havens 
they were bound  for2 it was his        
foresight that brought goods to market  
at the right  time2 it was his          
suggestion that made the industry of    
unthinking men  efficacious2 his        
sagacity saw itself justified at home   
not only1 but at  the ends of the earth4
 ,and as the money poured in1 his       
government and  mastery increased1 and  
his mind was the more satisfied4 ,it is 
so that  men make little kingdoms for   
themselves1 and an international power  
undarkened by diplomacy1 undirected by  
parliaments4          ,,iv      ,it is a
 mistake to suppose that the great      
captains of industry1 the  great        
organizers and directors of manufacture 
and commerce and monetary  exchange1 are
 engrossed in a vulgar pursuit of       
wealth4 ,too often they  suffer the     
vulgarity of wealth to display itself in

 the idleness and  ostentation of their 
wives and children1 who 8devote         
themselves10 it  may be1 8to expense    
regardless of pleasure02 but we ought   
not to  misunderstand even that1 or     
condemn it unjustly4 ,the masters of    
industry are often too busy with their  
own sober and momentous calling  to have
 time or spare thought enough to govern 
their own households4 ,a  king may be   
too faithful a statesman to be a        
watchful father4 ,these men  are not    
fascinated by the glitter of gold3 the  
appetite for power has  got hold upon   
them4 ,they are in love with the        
exercise of their  faculties upon a     
great scale2 they are organizing and    
overseeing a  great part of the life of 
the world4 ,no wonder they are          
captivated4  ,business is more          
interesting than pleasure1 as ,mr4      
,bagehot said1 and  when once the mind  
has caught its zest1 there's no         
disengaging it4 ,the  world has reason  
to be grateful for the fact4    ,it was 

this fascination that had got hold upon 
the faculties of the man  whom the world
 was afterward to know1 not as a prince 
among  merchants--for the world forgets 
merchant princes--but as a prince among 
benefactors2 for beneficence breeds     
gratitude1 gratitude admiration1        
admiration fame1 and the world remembers
 its benefactors4 ,business1 and        
business alone1 interested him1 or      
seemed to him worthwhile4 ,the first    
time he was asked to subscribe money for
 a benevolent object he  declined4 ,why 
should he subscribe8 ,what affair would 
be set forward1  what increase of       
efficiency would the money buy1 what    
return would it  bring in8 ,was good    
money to be simply given away1 like     
water poured on  a barren soil1 to be   
sucked up and yield nothing8 ,it was not
 until men  who understood benevolence  
on its sensible1 systematic1 practical1 
and  really helpful side explained it to
 him as an investment that his mind     
took hold of it and turned to it for    

satisfaction4 ,he began to see that     
education was a thing of infinite usury2
 that money devoted to it would  yield a
 singular increase to which there was no
 calculable end1 an  increase in        
perpetuity--increase of knowledge1 and  
therefore of  intelligence and          
efficiency1 touching generation after   
generation with  new impulses1 adding to
 the sum total of the world's fitness   
for  affairs--an invisible but intensely
 real spiritual usury beyond  reckoning1
 because compounded in an unknown ratio 
from age to age4  ,henceforward         
beneficence was as interesting to him as
 business--was1  indeed1 a sort of      
sublimated business in which money moved
 new forces  in a commerce which no man 
could bind or limit4    ,he had come to 
himself--to the full realization of his 
powers1 the true  and clear perception  
of what it was his mind demanded for its
  satisfaction4 ,his faculties were     
consciously stretched to their right    
measure1 were at last exercised at their

 best4 ,he felt the keen zest1  not of  
success merely1 but also of honor1 and  
was raised to a sort of  majesty among  
his fellow-men1 who attended him in     
death like a dead  sovereign4 ,he had   
died dwarfed had he not broken the bonds
 of mere  money-getting2 would never    
have known himself had he not learned   
how to  spend it2 and ambition itself   
could not have shown him a straighter   
road to fame4    ,this is the positive  
side of a man's discovery of the way in 
which his  faculties are to be made to  
fit into the world's affairs1 and       
released  for effort in a way that will 
bring real satisfaction4 ,there is a    
negative side also4 ,men come to        
themselves by discovering their         
limitations no less than by discovering 
their deeper endowments and the  mastery
 that will make them happy4 ,it is the  
discovery of what they can  not do1 and 
ought not to attempt1 that transforms   
reformers into  statesmen2 and great    
should be the joy of the world over     

every reformer  who comes to himself4   
,the spectacle is not rare2 the method  
is not  hidden4 ,the practicability of  
every reform is determined absolutely   
and  always by 8the circumstances of the
 case10 and only those who put          
themselves into the midst of affairs1   
either by action or by  observation1 can
 know what those circumstances are or   
perceive what  they signify4 ,no        
statesman dreams of doing whatever he   
pleases2 he  knows that it does not     
follow that because a point of morals or
 of  policy is obvious to him it will be
 obvious to the nation1 or even to  his 
own friends2 and it is the strength of a
 democratic polity that  there are so   
many minds to be consulted and brought  
to agreement1 and  that nothing can be  
wisely done for which the thought1 and a
 good deal  more than the thought1 of   
the country1 its sentiment and its      
purpose1  have not been prepared4       
,social reform is a matter of           
cooperation1 and  if it be of a novel   

kind1 requires an infinite deal of      
converting to  bring the efficient      
majority to believe in it and support   
it4 ,without  their agreement and       
support it is impossible4          ,v   
,it is this that the more imaginative   
and impatient reformers find out  when  
they come to themselves1 if that calming
 change ever comes to  them4 ,oftentimes
 the most immediate and drastic means of
 bringing them  to themselves is to     
elect them to legislative or executive  
office4 ,that  will reduce over-sanguine
 persons to their simplest terms4 ,not  
because  they find their                
fellow-legislators or officials         
incapable of high  purpose or           
indifferent to the betterment of the    
communities which they  represent4 ,only
 cynics hold that to be the chief reason
 why we approach  the millennium so     
slowly1 and cynics are usually very     
ill-informed  persons4 ,nor is it       
because under our modern democratic     
arrangements we  so subdivide power and 

balance parts in government that no one 
man can  tell for much or turn affairs  
to his will4 ,one of the most           
instructive  studies a politician could 
undertake would be a study of the       
infinite  limitations laid upon the     
power of the ,russian ,czar1            
notwithstanding  the despotic theory of 
the ,russian constitution--limitations  
of social  habit1 of official prejudice1
 of race jealousies1 of religious       
predilections1 of administrative        
machinery even1 and the inconvenience   
of being himself only one man1 caught   
amidst a rush of duties and             
responsibilities which never halt or    
pause4 ,he can do only what can be  done
 with the ,russian people4 ,he cannot   
change them at will4 ,he is  himself of 
their own stuff1 and immersed in the    
life which forms them1  as it forms him4
 ,he is simply the leader of the        
,russians4    ,an ,english or ,american 
statesman is better off4 ,he leads a    
thinking  nation1 not a race of peasants

 topped by a class of revolutionists and
  a caste of nobles and officials4 ,he  
can explain new things to men able  to  
understand1 persuade men willing and    
accustomed to make independent  and     
intelligent choices of their own4 ,an   
,english statesman has an even  better  
opportunity to lead than an ,american   
statesman1 because in  ,england         
executive power and legislative         
initiative are both intrusted  to the   
same grand committee1 the ministry of   
the day4 ,the ministers  both propose   
what shall be law and determine how it  
shall be enforced  when enacted4 ,and   
yet ,english reformers1 like ,american1 
have found  office a veritable          
cold-water bath for their ardor for     
change4 ,many a  man who has made his   
place in affairs as the spokesman of    
those who see  abuses and demand their  
reformation has passed from denunciation
 to  calm and moderate advice when he   
got into ,parliament1 and has turned    
veritable conservative when made a      

minister of the crown4 ,mr4 ,bright  was
 a notable example4 ,slow and careful   
men had looked upon him as  little      
better than a revolutionist so long as  
his voice rang free and  imperious from 
the platforms of public meetings4 ,they 
greatly feared  the influence he should 
exercise in ,parliament1 and would have 
deemed  the constitution itself unsafe  
could they have foreseen that he would  
some day be invited to take office and a
 hand of direction in affairs4  ,but it 
turned out that there was nothing to    
fear4 ,mr4 ,bright lived to  see almost 
every reform he had urged accepted and  
embodied in  legislation2 but he        
assisted at the process of their        
realization with  greater and greater   
temperateness and wise deliberation as  
his part in  affairs became more and    
more prominent and responsible1 and was 
at the  last as little like an agitator 
as any man that served the queen4    ,it
 is not that such men lose courage when 
they find themselves charged  with the  

actual direction of the affairs         
concerning which they have  held and    
uttered such strong1 unhesitating1      
drastic opinions4 ,they have  only      
learned discretion4 ,for the first time 
they see in its entirety  what it was   
that they were attempting4 ,they are at 
last at close  quarters with the world4 
,men of every interest and variety crowd
 about  them2 new impressions throng    
them2 in the midst of affairs the former
  special objects of their zeal fall    
into new environments1 a better and     
truer perspective2 seem no longer so    
susceptible to separate and  radical    
change4 ,the real nature of the complex 
stuff of life they were  seeking to work
 in is revealed to them--its intricate  
and delicate  fiber1 and the subtle1    
secret interrelationship of its         
parts--and they  work circumspectly1    
lest they should mar more than they     
mend4 ,moral  enthusiasm is not1        
uninstructed and of itself1 a suitable  
guide to  practicable and lasting       

reformation2 and if the reform sought be
 the  reformation of others as well as  
of himself1 the reformer should look  to
 it that he knows the true relation of  
his will to the wills of those  he would
 change and guide4 ,when he has         
discovered that relation1 he has  come  
to himself3 has discovered his real use 
and planning part in the  general world 
of men2 has come to the full command and
 satisfying  employment of his          
faculties4 ,otherwise he is doomed to   
live for ever in  a fool's paradise1 and
 can be said to have come to himself    
only on the  supposition that he is a   
fool4          ,,vi      ,every man--if 
,i may adopt and paraphrase a passage   
from ,dr4 ,south--every  man hath both  
an absolute and a relative capacity3 an 
absolute in that  he hath been endued   
with such a nature and such parts and   
faculties2  and a relative in that he is
 part of the universal community of men1
  and so stands in such a relation to   
the whole4 ,when we say that a man  has 

come to himself1 it is not of his       
absolute capacity that we are  thinking1
 but of his relative4 ,he has begun to  
realize that he is part  of a whole1 and
 to know what part1 suitable for what   
service and  achievement4    ,it was    
once fashionable--and that not a very   
long time ago--to speak of  political   
society with a certain distaste1 as a   
necessary evil1 an  irritating but      
inevitable restriction upon the         
8natural0 sovereignty  and entire       
self-government of the individual4 ,that
 was the dream of the  egotist4 ,it was 
a theory in which men were seen to strut
 in the proud  consciousness of their   
several and 8absolute0 capacities4 ,it  
would be  as instructive as it would be 
difficult to count the errors it has    
bred  in political thinking4 ,as a      
matter of fact1 men have never dreamed  
of  wishing to do without the 8trammels0
 of organized society1 for the very     
good reason that those trammels are in  
reality but no trammels at all1  but    

indispensable aids and spurs to the     
attainment of the highest and  most     
enjoyable things man is capable of4     
,political society1 the life of  men in 
states1 is an abiding natural           
relationship4 ,it is neither a mere     
convenience nor a mere necessity4 ,it is
 not a mere voluntary  association1 not 
a mere corporation4 ,it is nothing      
deliberate or  artificial1 devised for a
 special purpose4 ,it is in real truth  
the  eternal and natural expression and 
embodiment of a form of life higher     
than that of the individual--that common
 life of mutual helpfulness1            
stimulation1 and contest which gives    
leave and opportunity to the  individual
 life1 makes it possible1 makes it full 
and complete4    ,it is in such a scene 
that man looks about to discover his own
 place  and force4 ,in the midst of men 
organized1 infinitely cross-related1    
bound by ties of interest1 hope1        
affection1 subject to authorities1 to   
opinion1 to passion1 to visions and     

desires which no man can reckon1 he     
casts eagerly about to find where he may
 enter in with the rest and be  a man   
among his fellows4 ,in making his place 
he finds1 if he seek  intelligently and 
with eyes that see1 more than ease of   
spirit and  scope for his mind4 ,he     
finds himself--as if mists had cleared  
away about  him and he knew at last his 
neighborhood among men and tasks4       
,what every man seeks is satisfaction4  
,he deceives himself so long as he      
imagines it to lie in self-indulgence1  
so long as he deems himself the  center 
and object of effort4 ,his mind is spent
 in vain upon itself4 ,not  in action   
itself1 not in 8pleasure10 shall it find
 its desires  satisfied1 but in         
consciousness of right1 of powers       
greatly and nobly  spent4 ,it comes to  
know itself in the motives which satisfy
 it1 in the  zest and power of          
rectitude4 ,christianity has liberated  
the world1 not  as a system of ethics1  
not as a philosophy of altruism1 but by 

its  revelation of the power of pure and
 unselfish love4 ,its vital principle   
is not its code1 but its motive4 ,love1 
clear-sighted1 loyal1 personal1  is its 
breath and immortality4 ,christ came1   
not to save ,himself1  assuredly1 but to
 save the world4 ,his motive1 ,his      
example1 are every  man's key to his own
 gifts and happiness4 ,the ethical code 
he taught  may no doubt be matched1 here
 a piece and there a piece1 out of other
  religions1 other teachings and        
philosophies4 ,every thoughtful man born
  with a conscience must know a code of 
right and of pity to which he  ought to 
conform2 but without the motive of      
,christianity1 without love1  he may be 
the purest altruist and yet be as sad   
and as unsatisfied as  ,marcus          
,aurelius4    ,christianity gave us1 in 
the fullness of time1 the perfect image 
of  right living1 the secret of social  
and of individual well-being2 for  the  
two are not separable1 and the man who  
receives and verifies that  secret in   

his own living has discovered not only  
the best and only way  to serve the     
world1 but also the one happy way to    
satisfy himself4  ,then1 indeed1 has he 
come to himself4 ,henceforth he knows   
what his  powers mean1 what spiritual   
air they breathe1 what ardors of service
  clear them of lethargy1 relieve them  
of all sense of effort1 put them  at    
their best4 ,after this fretfulness     
passes away1 experience mellows  and    
strengthens and makes more fit1 and old 
age brings1 not senility1  not satiety1 
not regret1 but higher hope and serene  
maturity4    ,,the ,,end