It was, indeed, actively operative, although, like that of many a fine lady and gentleman, only in relation to such primary questions as: 'What shall we eat?
And what shall we drink?
And wherewithal shall we be clothed ?' But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction--the bare delight of his animal existence--reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible.

The power of enjoying the present without anticipation of the future or regard of the past, is the especial privilege of the animal nature, and of the human nature in proportion as it has not been developed beyond the animal.

Herein lies the happiness of cab horses and of tramps: to them the gift of forgetfulness is of worth inestimable.
Shargar's heaven was for the present gained..