Obstructed Will

“. . . The moral tragedy of human life comes almost wholly from the fact that link is ruptured which normally should hold between the vision of the truth and action . . . Their notions of possibility and their ideals are not as far apart as might be argued from their differing fates. No class of them have better sentiments or feel more constantly the difference between the higher and the lower path in life than the hopeless failures, the sentimentalists, the drunkards, the schemers, the ‘dead-beats,’ whose life is one long contradiction between knowledge and action . . .”