But the noble, soaring spirit leaves no trace behind, and the dull, mediocre person plows his name in deep and enduring characters in the soil of his native land.

What was wanting in Eynhardt to make him not only a harmonious but a useful being?
Obviously only the will.

But was this want an organic one?
I do not think so, for his lofty moral beauty was perfect in proportion and balance, and this noble nature could not possibly have been born incomplete, impossible that in a being so perfectly formed in all other respects such an important organ as the will should be missing.

His absence of volition was but the result of his perception of the vanity of all earthly ambitions, and his absence of desire the outcome of his contempt for all that was worthless and transitory, his aversion to the ways of the world a tragic foregoing of the hope of ever getting behind it, and reaching the eternal root and significance of the thing itself.
"Why was this German Buddhist not endowed with Haber's cheerful activity?
What an ideal and crowning flower of manhood would he not have been if he had not only thought but acted! But am I not desiring the impossible?
Does not the one nature preclude the other?
I fear so.
In order to attack unconcernedly that which lies nearest to us, we must be unable to see beyond, like the bull charging at the red cloak.

He would not do it, if behind the red rag, he saw the man with the sword, and behind the man with the sword the thousand spectators who will not leave the arena till the sharp steel has pierced his heart.