nd half-remember that they had souls.

Didst thou never, O Traveler, fall in with parties of this tribe?
Meseems they are grown somewhat numerous in our day.

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* Sale's _Koran_ (_Introduction_).

Chapter IV

Happy

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble:
be that here said and asserted once more. And in like manner too
all dignity is painful; a life of ease is not for any man, nor
for any god. The life of all gods figures itself to us as a
Sublime Sadness--earnestness of Infinite Battle against Infinite
Labour. Our highest religion is named the 'Worship of Sorrow.'
For the son of man there is no noble crown, well worn, or even
ill worn, but is a crown of thorns!--These things, in spoken
words, or still better, in felt instincts alive in every heart,
were once well known.

Does not the whole wretchedness, the whole _Atheism_ as I call
it, of man's ways, in these generations, shadow itself for us in
that unspeakable Life-philosophy of his: The pretension to be
what he calls 'happy?' Every pitifulest whipster that walks
within a skin has his head filled with the notion that he is,
shall be, or by all human and divine laws ought to be, 'happy.'
His wishes, the pitifulest whipster's, are to be fulfilled for
him; his days, the pitifulest whipster's, are to flow on in
ever-gentle current of enjoyment, impossible even for the gods.
The prophets preach to us, Thou shalt be happy; thou shalt love
pleasant things, and find them. The people clamour, Why have we
not found pleasant things?

We construct our theory of Human Duties, not on any Greatest-
Nobleness Principle, never so mistaken; no, but on a Greatest-
Happiness Principle. 'The word _Soul_ with us, as in some
Slavonic dialects, seems to be synonymous with _Stomach._ We
plead and speak, in our Parliaments and elsewhere, not as from
the Soul, but from the Stomach;--wherefore, indeed, our pleadings
are so slow to profit. We plead not for God's justice; we are
not ashamed to stand clamouring and pleading for our own
'interests,' our own rents and trade-profits; we say, They are
the 'interests' of so many; there is such an intense desire for
them in us! We demand Free-Trade, with much just vociferation
and benevolence, That the poorer classes, who are terribly ill-
off at present, may have cheaper New-Orleans bacon. Men ask on
Free-trade platforms, How can the indomitable spirit of
Englishmen be kept up with