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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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And
the
friends
I
have
made!
They
have
come
to
me
naturally,
as
the
corn
grows
in
my
fields
or
the
wind
blows
in
my
trees.
Some
strange
potency
abides
within
the
soil
of
this
earth!
When
two
men
stoop
(there
must
be
stooping)
and
touch
it
together,
a
magnetic
current
is
set
up
between
them:
a
flow
of
common
understanding
and
confidence.
I
would
call
the
attention
of
all
great
Scientists,
Philosophers,
and
Theologians
to
this
phenomenon:
it
will
repay
investigation.
It
is
at
once
the
rarest
and
the
commonest
thing
I
know.
It
shows
that
down
deep
within
us,
where
we
really
live,
we
are
all
a
good
deal
alike.
We
have
much
the
same
instincts,
hopes,
joys,
sorrows.
If
only
it
were
not
for
the
outward
things
that
we
commonly
look
upon
as
important
(which
are
in
reality
not
at
all
important)
we
might
come
together
without
fear,
vanity,
envy,
or
prejudice
and
be
friends.
And
what
a
world
it
would
be!
If
civilisation
means
anything
at
all
it
means
the
increasing
ability
of
men
to
look
through
material
possessions,
through
clothing,
through
differences
of
speech
and
colour
of
skin,
and
to
see
the
genuine
man
that
abides
within
each
of
us.
It
means
an
escape
from
symbols!
I
tell
this
merely
to
show
what
surprising
and
unexpected
things
have
grown
out
of
my
farm.
All
along
I
have
had
more
than
I
bargained
for.
From
now
on
I
shall
marvel
at
nothing!
When
I
ordered
my
own
life
I
failed;
now
that
I
work
from
day
to
day,
doing
that
which
I
can
do
best
and
which
most
delights
me,
I
am
rewarded
in
ways
that
I
could
not
have
imagined.
Why,
it
would
not
surprise
me
if
heaven
were
at
the
end
of
all
this!
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