as that same brilliant commentator remarks, we have in this word of the prophet’s “a natural and true climax, rising from the easier to the more difficult, from the ideal to the real, from dream to duty; from what can only be the rare occasions of life to what must be life’s usual and abiding experience.” No big thing is ever going to be accomplished, no great life is ever going to be lived, without this power to endure, this ability to “walk without being faint.” For the great life is not to be
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