 The article is extracted from J. L. Stocks's 'The Limits of Purpose'.So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result, clearly the quicker and easier it is brought about the better.Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself and your family will induce you to spend weary days in tilling the ground and tending livestock; but if Nature provided food and meat in abundance ready for the table, you would thank Nature for sparing you much labor and consider yourself so much the better off.