It's best to observe that the latter just didn't last. A very delciate flower is seldom hardy enough when it comes to action, where action is called for. When Adam didn't drop Eve at once when she had destroyed the basic conditions of the idyl of the Garden, he got many later reasons to worry and drop dead. Copious reading may not be to much help after that. There's wisdom in bringing messages when prizes are in sight, or when they help us to fulfil some of our own missions in life.
Decent living is truly fit.
It ties in with dwindling jungles and that sort of stuff. And the shrinking forests tie in with very mercantile interests. They shun little. Even holocaust-killings have occurred. Yet it should find a firm place near the heart of the great men and woman to come, or else there is global disaster waiting.