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man bring joy and fortune to another. Does he long for a picture? The artist is glad. Does he need a physician? The doctor is glad. Does the doctor lose his case? The undertaker is glad; and so on. One man's meat is another man's poison.

"Fleas have other fleas to bite 'em— And so go on, ad finitum."

If for any wise purpose of variety or harmony life varies from the infinite to the infinitessimal, there must be somewhere such a thing as man: and if for the same reason the human race varies from Shakspeare and Bacon to an idiot, there must be somewhere such a man as you are. All cannot be the head, but some must be the hands, and legs, and baser parts. None can be made for itself alone, but each for all,—for the edification and amusement of the entire race. One must furnish beauty, and lose something thereby; another must furnish deformity, and have some compensation therefor. One must furnish black eyes, another blue. One must furnish faculty, another capacity. One must be an example of suffering, and another must die of joy. Each man's actions must refer to the actions of all other men. You are born, like Caligula, or Socrates, to be a specimen, a curiosity, or perhaps a by-word,—"to make little boys ask questions." The suffering of Job were not for Job alone, else we never should have heard of Job. the rare breed of fish that was hauled from the deep to-day lived since the beginning of its species unknown of men till now, partly that we might wonder why it was hid from us so long.