He cannot perceive that all joy is within and not without. A prisoner of fate, held enchained for his own delight, he does not know that the walls are tall, that the sentinels of life are forever pacing, musket in hand.
Many such an individual is so lashed by necessity and law that he falls fainting to the ground, dies hungry in the gutter or rotting in the jail and it never once flashes across his mind that he has been lashed only in so far as he has persisted in attempting to trespass the boundaries which necessity sets.
When, after error, pain falls as a lash, they do not comprehend that their suffering is due to misbehavior. Laws are but the fences which circumscribe the sphere of their operations. For them pain and necessity are the great taskmasters. They think only of themselves because they have not yet been taught to think of society. They have no conception of the necessity of a well-organized society wherein all shall accept a certain quota of responsibility and all realize a reasonable amount of happiness. They have no feeling that any result which might flow from their action should concern them. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey for their sole delight. “Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility.
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