To drink deeply of the cup of life, at whatever cost, appears to be the insatiable desire of the most richly endowed men and women; and with such natures the impulse is to seek, not to shun, experience.

And that which to the elect men and women of the race is necessary and possible is not only comprehensible to those who cannot possess it: it is powerfully and permanently attractive.

There is a spell in it which the dullest mortal does not wholly escape.[1] 1.

Reprinted in part, by permission, from the "Forum.".