Excerpt from Cross-Lots, and Other Essays

But I have not lost sight of my cross-lots path, nor intended to read into it more than is implicitly there. I do not suppose that the cross-lots pilgrim who blazed the trail I fol lowed that midsummer day was consciously making a path for his successors. His choice was primarily an individual matter. He was suiting his own convenience or pleasure. He was thinking and deciding in personal terms. Exactly. And why shrink from the logic of that? Until one identifies with his own felicity the needs of others, until their cries ring in his.

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