And he was curious about it all--the meaning and purpose of life.

He loved the world and life, into which he had been fortunately born, both as to constitution and to place, which latter, for him, had been the high place over hie priests and people.

He was not afraid to die, but he wondered if he might live again.

He discounted the silly views of the tricky priests, and he was very much alone in the chaos of the confusing problem.
For he had lived so long, and so luckily, that he had watched the waning to extinction of all the vigorous appetites and desires.

He had known wives and children, and the keen-edge of youthful hunger.