We do not know what to do with this short life - yet we long for another that will be eternal.
Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.
With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful careeer must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountians, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against danger is in itself a good, and that men, like nations, are the better for staggering through life fully armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks.