From Pillar to Post 



as if merely a machine ; so why should his place 

 of abode look like a museum with its treasures 

 in fixed and unvarying positions ? As the pinch 

 of salt at a feast, so a dash of carelessness adds 

 to the piquancy of a life. 



Universality of assent is not evidence of 

 truth. Once upon a time it was universally 

 conceded that the earth was flat. So, to-day, we 

 have it dinned into our ears that woe betides 

 the hindmost in the race, and to be up and doing 

 is the paramount evidence of excellence and the 

 only way of making reward a certainty. Start 

 men on the subject and their speech runs into 

 sermons, lectures and dire prediction. It is all 

 very discouraging. The idea of rational enjoy- 

 ment must be postponed until we are overbur- 

 dened with acquisitions and our proper selves 

 stiff-jointed and dried until there is no response 

 to the invitation of Nature to be, not up and 

 doing, but out and enjoying. Youth is too often 

 a vaguely remembered dream before manhood 

 has had time to assume authority. To-day the 

 single aim of life is to get : no longer is it the 

 art of living. 



Hare and tortoise: an old story, but never 

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