On the Open Road; Being Some Thoughts And a Little Creed of Wholesome Living
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Each pays the penalty for his folly, the one by cutting himself off from much innocent and valuable God-intended enjoyment, at the same time casting a continual shadow over the lives of others ; the other by way of settling heavy bills of costs for his excesses. It should be then neither license nor perverted use on the one hand, nor asceticism or priggishness on the other, — the full use of all normal and natural functions, faculties, and powers, innocent and good in themselves, that all may b...e brought to their full- est growth and development, but never excessive or perverted use. The tendency of the great majority, especially in our present-day American life, is on the side of the too serious, the too busy, the too absorbing in the business, in the work. This induces all uncon- sciously, in time, a prevailing type of thought and mental activity that takes, so to speak, the buoy- ancy, the elasticity out of both mind and body, so that age and its accompanying features manifest, assert, and fix themselves in many, or to speak 137] ON THE OPEN ROAD more truly, in the majority of cases, long before their time.
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