present tribulations and turmoils. I believe in getting up 5 Notes: in the morning with a serene mind and a heart holding 6 many hopes. And, so large a number of my fellow worms in 7 the dust believe the same, that there is no use putting 8 stress on it. 9 I can remember many years ago, a beautiful woman in 10 Santa Fe saying, “I don’t know how anybody can study 11 astronomy and have ambition enough to get up in the 12 morning.” She was putting a comic twist on what an 13 insignificant speck of animate star dust each of us is amid 14 cotillions of billion-year constellations. 15 I believe in humility, though my confession and exposition 16 of the humility I believe in would run into an old fashioned 17 two- or three-hour sermon. Also I believe in pride, knowing 18 well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as 19 pride. I believe in a pride that prays ever for an awareness 20 of that borderline where, unless watchful of yourself, you 21 cross over into arrogance, into vanity, into mirror gazing, 22 into misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your 23 personality. 24 No single brief utterance of Lincoln is more portentous 25 than the line he wrote to a federal authority in Louisiana. “I 26
5 present tribulations and turmoils. I believe in getting up Notes: 6 in the morning with a serene mind and a heart holding 7 many hopes. And, so large a number of my fellow worms in 8 the dust believe the same, that there is no use putting 9 stress on it. 10 I can remember many years ago, a beautiful woman in 11 Santa Fe saying, “I don’t know how anybody can study 12 astronomy and have ambition enough to get up in the 13 morning.” She was putting a comic twist on what an 14 insignificant speck of animate star dust each of us is amid 15 cotillions of billion-year constellations. 16 I believe in humility, though my confession and exposition 17 of the humility I believe in would run into an old fashioned 18 two- or three-hour sermon. Also I believe in pride, knowing 19 well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as 20 pride. I believe in a pride that prays ever for an awareness 21 of that borderline where, unless watchful of yourself, you 22 cross over into arrogance, into vanity, into mirror gazing, 23 into misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your 24 personality. 25 No single brief utterance of Lincoln is more portentous 26 than the line he wrote to a federal authority in Louisiana. “I
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