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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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The
great
point
of
advantage
in
the
life
of
the
country
is
that
if
a
man
is
in
reality
simple,
if
he
love
true
contentment,
it
is
the
place
of
all
places
where
he
can
live
his
life
most
freely
and
fully,
where
he
can
grow.
The
city
affords
no
such
opportunity;
indeed,
it
often
destroys,
by
the
seductiveness
with
which
it
flaunts
its
carnal
graces,
the
desire
for
the
higher
life
which
animates
every
good
man.
While
on
the
subject
of
simplicity
it
may
be
well
to
observe
that
simplicity
does
not
necessarily,
as
some
of
those
who
escape
from
the
city
seem
to
think,
consist
in
doing
without
things,
but
rather
in
the
proper
use
of
things.
One
cannot
return,
unless
with
affectation,
to
the
crudities
of
a
former
existence.
We
do
not
believe
in
Diogenes
and
his
tub.
Do
you
not
think
the
good
Lord
has
given
us
the
telephone
(that
we
may
better
reach
that
elbow-rub
of
brotherhood
which
is
the
highest
of
human
ideals)
and
the
railroad
(that
we
may
widen
our
human
knowledge
and
sympathy)--and
even
the
motor-car?
(though,
indeed,
I
have
sometimes
imagined
that
the
motor-cars
passing
this
way
had
a
different
origin!).
He
may
have
given
these
things
to
us
too
fast,
faster
than
we
can
bear;
but
is
that
any
reason
why
we
should
denounce
them
all
and
return
to
the
old,
crude,
time-consuming
ways
of
our
ancestors?
I
am
no
reactionary.
I
do
not
go
back.
I
neglect
no
tool
of
progress.
I
am
too
eager
to
know
every
wonder
in
this
universe.
The
motor-car,
if
I
had
one,
could
not
carry
me
fast
enough!
I
must
yet
fly!
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