The Philosophy of Angling. 315 



which feels the whole day's sport in every minute, the whole 

 brook's beauty at every step. 



" And so with life. It is to be lived as a whole. Happiness 

 comes from an energetic sense of its entire significance in every 

 passing phase of it — in mystery, as giving value to knowledge — 

 in failure, as the gauge of success — in evil, as the condition of 

 good, which indeed is but evil overcome, and. without the evil 

 could not be — and in all alike as strides and easts of the confident 

 soul, whose trout-stream from end to end is God. 



" And if by these the soul gains nought else, it gains immortal 

 health ; fills its creel with secrets of infinite love and wisdom — 

 wisdom too loving to wish less than man's perfection — love too 

 wise to spare any pain necessary to attain Grodlike end. Luck 

 enough for time or eternity. Nay, eternal sport in time." 



