First, though, I'll venture to
assert that your idea of the nature and purpose of life as we humans
know and experience it is rather hazy. Have you ever seriously asked
yourself why we exist as entities at all? And, seeing that we do find
ourselves possessed of this existence, what constrains us to act along
certain lines?"
Hazel shook her head. That was an abstraction which she had never
considered. She had been too busy living to make a critical analysis
of life. She had the average girl's conception of life, when she
thought of it at all, as a state of being born, of growing up, of
marrying, of trying to be happy, and ultimately--very remotely--of
dying. And she had also the conventional idea that activity in the
world, the world as she knew it, the doing of big things in a public or
semi-public way, was the proper sphere for people of exceptional
ability. But why this should be so, what law, natural or fabricated by
man, made it so she had never asked herself. She had found it so, and
taken it for granted. Roaring Bill Wagstaff was the first man to cross
her path who viewed the struggle for wealth and fame and power as other
than inevitable and desirable.
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