Studies in conduct . XVII. MENTAL j|T is a matter of very common observa-tion that men are wont to give uptheir game of life too easily, or, to putit in another way, to lower their aimsand choose the less worthy prizes after an insuf-ficient essay to reach the higher objects which atfirst, and justly, they thought best worth are too willing to think that their characterhas crystallized, that they have somehow foundtheir way into a groove which their age and cir-cumstances forbid them to exchange for this sense men are always inclined to fancy them-selves older
Studies in conduct . XVII. MENTAL j|T is a matter of very common observa-tion that men are wont to give uptheir game of life too easily, or, to putit in another way, to lower their aimsand choose the less worthy prizes after an insuf-ficient essay to reach the higher objects which atfirst, and justly, they thought best worth are too willing to think that their characterhas crystallized, that they have somehow foundtheir way into a groove which their age and cir-cumstances forbid them to exchange for this sense men are always inclined to fancy them-selves older than they are, and every year is, notwithout a certain feeling of relief, made to countfor two. A man of five-and-thirty, looking at thechances of his animal life, commonly takes a cheer-ful and expansive view of the future in that respect, Mental Ripeness. 165 but if you discourse to him upon higher moral pur-pose, wider intellectual sympathies, new and variedpursuits, he replies as if the book of his life wereinstantly on the point of be
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