The elementary stage of knowledge is to make self, and self alone, thy study and thy world.
Thou hast decided thine own career; thou hast renounced love; thou hast rejected wealth, fame, and the vulgar pomps of power.

What, then, are all mankind to thee?
To perfect thy faculties, and concentrate thy emotions, is henceforth thy only aim!" "And will happiness be the end ?" "If happiness exist," answered Mejnour, "it must be centred in a SELF to which all passion is unknown.

But happiness is the last state of being; and as yet thou art on the threshold of the first." As Mejnour spoke, the distant vessel spread its sails to the wind, and moved slowly along the deep.

Glyndon sighed, and the pupil and the master retraced their steps towards the city..