and shows! We see men eager for money, glory, and lust, who, to attain their desires and to keep what they have acquired, suffer, not through absolute need but with a culpable will, the heat of the sun, rain, icy cold, billows and stormy tempests, the bitterness and uncertainty of wars, the strokes of terrific blows and dreadful wounds. But these insane acts, somehow, seem licit. Avarice, ambition, luxury, and a passionate interest in various sports are considered blameless, unless they