If, on the other hand, there were only Eynhardts, our existence
would be passed in wandering delightfully, our souls full of perfect
peace, through the gardens of the Academos in company with Plato;
but the world would starve and die out with this wise and lofty-
minded race; unless, indeed, the sun took pity on them, and brought
forth grains and fruits without their assistance, and unless a few
flighty little women, particularly inaccessible to the higher
philosophy, should surprise these transcendental and passionless
thinkers in an unguarded moment, and beguile them into committing
some slight act of folly.
"To combine in one intelligence Haber's circumscribed vision, naive
self confidence, and enterprising activity with Enyhardt's sublime
idealism and knowledge of good and evil is outside the range of
possibility. And which of the two is of the greater benefit to the
world? Which of them raises mankind to a higher level of
development? Which of them best fulfills his purpose as a human
being? Whose point of view of the world and of life is the more
correct? Which of the two would I set up as a model before the child
whom Eynhardt snatched from death at the price of his own body, and
in whom his life as it were finds its continuation? My old friend
Pyrrhon, thou who hearkened, two thousand two hundred years before
my day, to the profound wisdom of the Brahmins, I can but answer in
thy words, 'Uden horizo,'--I do not decide.
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