原文：
    It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man's contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance.
    譯文：
    在這充滿聯(lián)姻婚嫁、決戰(zhàn)廝殺的世界里，每天特定時(shí)刻，我們都欣然而又迅速地把一份食物一去不返地吞入包裹我們的皮囊。這個(gè)世界看上去似乎有很多東西都是可以得到的。猛然看來(lái)，盡可能地獲取也成為紛繁人生的目標(biāo)。然而，對(duì)于精神世界來(lái)說(shuō)，這只不過(guò)是表面現(xiàn)象。