“Just consider the almost heroic modesty that is involved in a man’s applying his mental force to the attainment of a single goal: to be able wholly to assent, without excepting anything, without wanting to change anything. To offer a counterpoise to all things within the self. To be able to feel as a matter of deep and real experience that this world is always in order, always hung
correctly on its hinges. And thus in the end we may attain, without whole personalities, a knowledge and a capacity already possessed by every loafer who stands leaning against a fence and who from the start sees the world just as it is, though it may be that he only sees it from below, sees it squirming on its belly through the mud. . . . “
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