SCHOLASTIC OPPORTUNITIES.
The single man has a fine chance to be "a scholar and a ripe good one."
Having been denied the joys of a household all dependent on him, he may
surround himself with books, he may pursue investigations, he may gather
the ideas of the wits and the thinkers, and he may thus broaden his
brains until he is the honored associate of the best minds in his
region. This form of happiness is, to those who are within reach of it,
one of the most satisfying within the gift of God. There is no reaction,
there is no sorrow.
MAN LIVES TO LEARN,
after all. If the mind goes on in the culture of those high qualities
which have been inwoven with his weak frame, it seems to me his
selfishness has been well disposed of. The dollar which, in the cautious
mind, was begrudged to a wee toddler who never lived, for a pair of
shoes, has been placed where it has brought new knowledge of the power
and wisdom of God, the Creator and Conservator of the Universe. The
wisdom thus born out of selfishness will inculcate in those to follow
him the folly of selfishness, and the tastelessness of its brightest
apples of gold.
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