Excerpt from The Rising Faith
We are born to interrogate; and the test of a man is what are his questions; for the measure of diginity and depravity is, in the pedler"s old cry, if grandly interpreted, What do you lack? The lower the creature, the better it is content, the less being the inquiry and fewer the wants; albeit the extent of our researches and satisfactions is the gauge of our Worth. Yet discreet asking is not only, as Bacon says, half of science, but of morals and religion; and that but one tithe in us is attainment and the remainder pursuit, is our title of honor and tenure of life; for Archimedes could complain he might better not have been than be slain amid his problems unsolved. Only on this Jacob"s ladder of existence, let us know our direction, if our face be set up or down; for, save by a falsehood in nature, aspiration cannot be finally balked.
But what is to seek?
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