Excerpt from Some Estimates of Life
The infant man seems to have an instinctive sense of insufficiency and incompleteness. He holds fast to any support upon which his hands chance to fall and gives the clearest evidence that he is moved by the sense of his own helplessness. And, indeed, how very dependent he is! How little he knows! His body is naked and his mind is blank, his hands are empty and his moral senses are dormant.
But the infant man is possessed of an "acquiring tendency." He reaches out to things outside of himself. And there are very few worth while things that come to him of their own volition; he must "fight if he would win" even in the battle of existence itself.
The infant man recognizes that he is a born king.
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