The Soul: An Essay Towards a Point of View
The Soul: An Essay Towards a Point of View
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He saw in himself a new dignity. He was no longer the chaotic fragment of a nameless and immense force expressing itself through life and replenishing itself through death. He was a commissioned officer having absolute command over what appeared to him a definite portion of space and time. Thus was born the social man.
XXVI.
Still he was aware of an ineradicable desire for happiness.
Exactly what he meant by happiness he was imable to fathom, and the moral philosophers tell us that he has never... found it. Cer- tainly not ; for in his social person he has always been too wise to look for it. He found that he was only happy whefi he faced the fact that he was miserable. The happiness sprang out of the misery in solitary moments when he had recourse to his elemental nature and expressed it in love and in dreams. But these moments always made him distrust himself, relaxed his sense of dignity and com- mand, and made him feel unequal to the task he had set himself.
He found that social life provided him with something just as good* as happiness, which is pleasure: and that he was evidently intended to reward himself for thinking so much about other people by collecting as many pleasant things as possible.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He saw in himself a new dignity. He was no longer the chaotic fragment of a nameless and immense force expressing itself through life and replenishing itself through death. He was a commissioned officer having absolute command over what appeared to him a definite portion of space and time. Thus was born the social man.
XXVI.
Still he was aware of an ineradicable desire for happiness.
Exactly what he meant by happiness he was imable to fathom, and the moral philosophers tell us that he has never... found it. Cer- tainly not ; for in his social person he has always been too wise to look for it. He found that he was only happy whefi he faced the fact that he was miserable. The happiness sprang out of the misery in solitary moments when he had recourse to his elemental nature and expressed it in love and in dreams. But these moments always made him distrust himself, relaxed his sense of dignity and com- mand, and made him feel unequal to the task he had set himself.
He found that social life provided him with something just as good* as happiness, which is pleasure: and that he was evidently intended to reward himself for thinking so much about other people by collecting as many pleasant things as possible.
What to read after The Soul: An Essay Towards a Point of View?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 to read onlineMoreLess
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