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good he can, of whatever kind, in what-
-ever way; logically he can not well over-
-value the good there may be to him
in wealth, power, pleasure, fame, and
fortune; since these must be all in all
to him. Logically he can not content
himself with less than the gratifi-
-cation of his utmost wish. But there is not
in existence enough to supply in full even the fa-
-vored few, and the masses of the world's
population so environed must go much disappoint-
-ed and deprived, and therefore unhap-
-py and discontented to the day of death.

Looking out upon life early in his
career, with only this prospect and no
more possibility of more or better, for the whole of being, one must
logically inquire, if life is worth the