Like Felix Holt (from George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the Radical), “I, (too), could confess to a great many … things I’m not proud of.” He is correct when he says, “there are not many easy lots drawn in the world at present” be it George Eliot’s present, ours today, or even that of the future. And, “as such as they are I (like Holt) am not envious of them. I don’t say life is not worth having: it is worth having to a man who has some sparks of sense and feeling and bravery in him. And the finest fellow of all would be the one who would be glad to have lived because the world was chiefly miserable, and his life had come to help someone who needed it. He would be the man who had the most powers and the fewest selfish wants. “ I, too, desire to be of service to humanity and yet, like Holt, I am deeply aware that “I am not up to the level of what I see best. I’m often a hungry discontented fellow.” I will strive nonetheless and endeavor to better both humanity and I. Please fault me for my failings so I can grow and change for the better, but I hope you will not hold my humanity against me.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:01:05 +0000
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