On the contrary.

Deeply fulfilled through marriage, and at one with his own soul, he must now undertake the responsibility for the next step into the future.

He must now give himself perfectly to some further purpose, some passionate purposive activity.

Till a man makes the great resolution of aloneness and singleness of being, till he takes upon himself the silence and central appeasedness of maturity; and _then, after this_, assumes a sacred responsibility for the next purposive step into the future, there is no rest.

The great resolution of aloneness and appeasedness, and the further deep assumption of responsibility in purpose--this is necessary to every parent, every father, every husband, at a certain point.